Aged 27, I was swept off my feet by my gorgeous husband, Lee, now 42. I was 13st and loved my curvy figure. Lee was the perfect gentleman, and we quickly fell in love. We enjoyed nights out at fancy restaurants and cosy evenings in feasting on takeaways. But our romantic nights took its toll on my weight, and I gained four stone in as many years. Lee told me he'd love me at any size, so I wasn't too worried. However, my weight spiralled out of control after falling pregnant in 2003 with my son, Oliver. Three years later, I weighed a whopping 20st. ‘Does my bum look big in this?’ I asked Lee, as I stuffed myself into a pair of size-24 jeans.
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .