Pinning a purple flower into her bleach blonde hair, pretty Ava admired herself in the mirror. She had every reason to be proud. In the space of a year, she had lost an incredible 17 stone. Her weight dropped from 37st 1lbs to 19st 7lbs, and she slipped into a dress before gazing at her newly svelte figure. With her smokey eye makeup and black skater dress, she could have been glamming up for a night on the tiles with her girlfriends. Instead, it was Halloween, 2013, and Ava was hiding a huge secret. Born a boy named William, it was the first time she had ever dressed as a girl – and everything fell into place.
BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
SNOWBOARDING in your £2,000 wedding dress sounds like a nightmare for most brides .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
JUDGE BLASTED FOR LETTING PAEDO WALK FREE A PERVERT who sexually assaulted two young girls on an allotment, telling them he was brushing spiders off them, has walked free from court – because jailing him was ‘unfair’ on his family .
WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .