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.
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
A woman has told how her addiction to eating bath bubbles during her pregnancy was better than SEX .
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
A woman left disfigured and traumatised by an addiction to lip filler injections has issued a warning to others searching for the perfect pout after the plastic chemicals nearly killed her .
Walking down the street in her local town, heads turn as Jessica Villafane passes by .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
A woman has spent over £11k to get the perfect body after a 9st weight loss left her with excess skin .
A young polar bear cub becomes the yogi bear as she stretches off for a morning aerobics session .
A woman who suffered from body dysmorphic disorder has overcome her illness by becoming a LINGERIE MODEL .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .