A Gary Barlow superfan has lost an incredible 11st after a selfie with the pop star left her horrified by her 22st 9lb figure. Hellen Ellis, 40, from Rowley Regis, West Midlands, once ate 14 packets of cheese and onion crisps per day, but says she never realised how big she was until she took a photograph with the former Take That singer at his ‘Since I saw You Last’ tour in April 2014. Shocked into action by the unflattering selfie, the size 30 supermarket sales assistant underwent a gastric bypass and has dropped an astonishing nine dress sizes to a size 12.
A woman was diagnosed with cancer after a cyst left her so bloated medics were convinced she was pregnant .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
A mum-of-two has revealed how she accidentally set her face on fire while lighting a cigarette .
A mother-of-three who weighed almost 16st has revealed how she lost 7 .
A father-of-one stunned his wife of twenty-five years after revealing his secret love of POLE DANCING .
A man who spent 30 minutes impaled on iron railings after attempting to scale an 8ft fence has told of his agonising ordeal - and how he suffered a similar mishap as a child .
SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
Meet the real life anime girl who looks like a living cartoon character despite never going under the knife .
A former size 30 comfort-eater ditched her husband and lost over 10st after he called her a 'fat cow' .
A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .
A baby who was given just a three per cent chance of survival at birth has beaten the odds to come home - even though docs told his parents to abort him 12 times .