Article: THE ULTIMATE LLEWELYN-BOWEN MAKEOVER; Her flamboyant husband Laurence is famous for transforming people's homes on TV. Now Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen has made her own changes - by losing five stone in five months. She tells Viv Groskop how, and why, she took the extreme weight-loss option.(Features)

Byline: Viv Groskop

When Jackie Llewelyn-Bowen stepped on to the red carpet at the Classical Brit Awards last May in a daringly slinky green satin dress, for once it was not her flamboyantly dressed husband Laurence, the TV presenter and design guru from Changing Rooms, who turned heads. Previously described as a 'publicity-shy showbiz wife who hid her 18-stone figure behind voluminous dresses' (she was actually 16st 4lb at her heaviest), Jackie looked stunning - and tiny. She'd lost five stone in five months on an extreme diet, and emerged a happy, healthy size 12.

When we meet, Jackie looks svelte - but still voluptuous - in a fitted dress and black ...

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