real life
'We cannot imagine life without her.'
It was a bittersweet day.
'I thought I would be dead by the time I was 30.'
'I was angry and I was crying all the time.'
John only wakes for food and the bathroom.
'I felt like a ticking time bomb.'
'They showed me pictures of it after the operation, it was enormous.'
'I dread the thought of getting them again.'
It affects roughly 16,000 people in the UK.
'I had been overweight for as long as I could remember.'