66kg DOWN AND I GAVE BIRTH TO A HEALTHY BABY GIRL

Kirsten Fernandes battled with her weight since her late teens but it was when her father, who passed away earlier this year, went into renal failure in 2013 that the gravity of her situation hit home. ‘Like me, he was diabetic,’ Kirsten says. ‘When I went to see him in ICU, he said to me: “If you don’t do something about your weight, you’re going to land up here, like me, and probably a whole lot sooner.” That was a watershed moment for me.’