HOW COULD I GET MARRIED LIKE THIS?
Jun 08, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: FRANCESCA WOODSTOCK.
Standing in front of a mirror, I put on a brave face. ‘This is the one,’ I told my mum. It was 2015, and we were shopping for my wedding dress. The assistant at the bridal boutique had laced me up in an ivory gown, but although the dress was beautiful, I was desperate for the experience to be over.
‘You look stunning,’ Mum smiled.
I wanted to believe her, but I was so overweight at size 28, I felt anything but.
I’d always been big. At 6ft tall, I was size 18 when I finished school and, after graduating from university in 2002 and surviving
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