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 man has lost an incredible 20st after his addiction to food left him £15k in debt .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .
Posh pooch owners are lapping their pets up in luxury by paying £1,500 for 22ct gold lined fine china DOG BOWLS .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
A prolific drug dealer was caught red-handed in a car filled with amphetamines after he decided to park in a top copper's parking space - as a joke .
A woman was left shocked after her hunky boyfriend confessed he was actually born a GIRL .
A mum has warned of the dangers of child eating disorders, after her 10-year-old daughter developed anorexia when school bullies branded her ‘FAT’ .
LIKE A scene from A Bugs Life, these ants work on creating their own mini community .
FOR most restaurateurs, the phrase ‘the customer is always right’ is gospel .
A mother-of-one has told how she nearly died after contracting toxic shock syndrome from a tampon .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .