A former food addict who had spent her whole life dreaming of romance shed an astonishing 12st 7lbs to experience love for the first time. Hazel Dyson, 27, used to weigh a massive 22st 7lbs and as a 21-year-old virgin had given up hope of ever having a boyfriend. Men insulted her size 26 figure, calling her ‘massive’ and ‘disgusting’ – leaving the ceramic artist convinced that she would be single forever. But six years later, the size 10 beauty is in demand and is inundated with attention from men who are desperate to date her. Hazel, from Huddersfield, said: ‘I’d struggled with my weight since I was a child, and by the time I was in secondary school, I was 15st.
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
HEARTWARMING belongings lie abandoned in this eerie former dairy farm which has been left to crumble away for decades .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .
A young woman has told how she has been robbed of her fertility and now faces an uncertain future after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of just 22 .
THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .
The rock restaurant, located in Zanzibar – THIS unique restaurant really does boast breath-taking views - as it is perched on a rock in the middle of the sea .
STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .