Charmaine Brooks, 34, explains how this picture changed her life
There we were, pedalling round the campsite in a giant go-kart, having fun. My partner Darren, our kids Nathan, then 12, and Aimee, 10, and I were in Poole, Dorset, for a holiday and we’d decided to hire a buggy to go exploring. But then Darren decided to stop…
‘Let’s take a photo,’ he said. As a size 26, I made a point of avoiding cameras – but Darren was insistent. I tried to take a selfie of all of us – thinking that way I could keep it to headshots – but the frame wasn’t big enough, so a passerby offered to help.
I forced a smile and in a flash the photo was taken. But then I caught a glimpse of it. My thighs were spilling out of the sides of the buggy, my arms were so round and my face was huge. ‘Oh my God,’ I said. ‘Is that really what I look like?’ Darren nodded his head, and tears ran down my cheeks…
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THE DECISION THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
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MY TOY ΒΟΥ KEEPS ME YOUNG
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'THAT'S NOT MY BABY'
Lying in the hospital bed, my husband Michael had tears of happiness in his eyes as he showed me a photo on his phone. 'Here she is,' he said proudly. 'This is our beautiful baby girl.'I stared at the photo and shook my head. 'No, that's not my baby,' I said. 'There must be a mistake.'It was August 2010 and I'd not long before had an emergency caesarean. I'd not had a chance to see Winnie when she arrived as she'd been whisked away for tests because she was nearly two months premature.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
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