When Janet Curry, 38, was told she was ‘too big to date’ by a man she met on the dating website Plenty of Fish, she didn’t let it stop her from looking for love. After going through a divorce and battling a painful abdominal disorder, the professional makeup artist and mum-of-one knew that she could handle anything. But at 22.5st and a size-30, there was just one thing in the way of finding Mr Right. So a determined Janet vowed to shed the pounds to gain a man. She has now dropped 11.5st and an astonishing NINE dress sizes to slim down to a perfect size-12. Plus she’s bagged a hunky fella to boot.
THIS is the moment one irritated pelican nearly swallows the entire head of his unlucky competitor .
Meet the dog-loving woman who spends £20k a year looking after her 30 pet PUGS .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
A LUXURY baby cot has hit the shelves with a price tag just shy of 10 MILLION POUNDS .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
A woman has revealed how she almost died after she developed sepsis from a cold .
HEARTWARMING belongings lie abandoned in this eerie former dairy farm which has been left to crumble away for decades .
AN Irish woman has become the first adult in the world to receive a revolutionary REMOTE CONTROLLED 'ROBO SPINE', which uses magnets to combat the effects of scoliosis .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
Housands of cushions handmade as gifts for Olympics athletes may go to waste after London 2012 KNITWITS stitched up volunteers by refusing to allow them to hand them out .