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 diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .
A student has finally hit puberty after a four year battle against anorexia stunted his growth .
A woman who suffered from body dysmorphic disorder has overcome her illness by becoming a LINGERIE MODEL .
In 2021, Anneka Watkinson, now 37, from Lancashire, met Chris, now 40 .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature .
A mum-of-two has worn the same t-shirt for an entire year to raise awareness of a 1 in 7 million condition that prevents her daughter from talking .
A psychology student from California looks so much like Game of Thrones' Jon Snow that he is mobbed by fans of the fantasy show .