WAKE-UP CALL!

Squeezing into my seat on the plane, I attempted to pull my seat belt around my body.

But at my size, it was clear it wasn’t going to make it.

‘Excuse me,’ I said to the stewardess quietly.

‘Do you have a seat belt extender at all? Mine doesn’t seem to quite fit.’

I was absolutely mortified.

And when the stewardess called out for an extender across a plane full of people, I wanted the ground to swallow me up.

It was the summer of 2017, and while I knew my weight