Article: Your Life: Gillian was so fat she broke a chair.. DIET BUT IT MADE HER LOSE NEARLY 13ST It took public humiliation to make mum-of-two Gillian Harvey lose weight. But now she's never looked back...(Features)

Byline: BY ADRIAN MONTI

AFTER a waiting room chair buckled beneath her, Gillian Harvey was so embarrassed she shed more than half her bodyweight.

A week away from the birth of her daughter and weighing 25st 3Ib, Gillian was attending an appointment with her midwife.

Gillian's size 32 frame had no sooner touched the wooden chair than she heard a loud crack.

The seat collapsed and the eyes of everyone in the room turned towards her.

"I tried to make light of it, but I was dying of shame," says Gillian, a 25-year-old mum-of-two, ...

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