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.
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .
A mother-of-one has told how she nearly died after contracting toxic shock syndrome from a tampon .
A woman has revealed how she didn’t know she was pregnant until she saw her baby’s head crowning .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .
WELCOME to the pretty 122-inch-tall red dwelling that lays claim to the title of the UK's smallest house .
A student has finally hit puberty after a four year battle against anorexia stunted his growth .
A Hereford woman has lost 10st 3lbs after ditching her £260-a-month takeaway habit .