The weight is over to start our family

Baby hopes drove couple to lose 20st between them

- BETH KILGALLON

A COUPLE desperate to start a family shed 20st between them in a bid to get the fertility help they need.

Kyrie Doran, 29, says she ballooned to 20 stone as a result of conditions including PCOS, endometriosis and an underactive thyroid.

However, since doctors wouldn’t take her and husband Carl seriously with her fertility issues because of their size, the pair have dropped 10 stone each and are now totally unrecognisable.

As well as wanting to lose weight to help her fall pregnant, Kyrie and Carl, both from Dublin, wanted to shed the pounds for their wedding day.

Kyrie decided to take matters into her own hands and booked gastric sleeve surgery in Turkey, which helped her lose 10 stone before Carl had the procedure six months later.

By the time her wedding came around in November last year, Kyrie had to swap her previous size 28 dress for a size 10, which had to be reordered in a petite size from the dress factory.

Kyrie, a special needs assistant, said: “My weight has been an issue for me for as long as I can remember, and it stemmed from hormonal conditions that began when I first started my periods.

BULLIED

“My hormonal imbalances meant that my weight went up pretty much overnight.