Weight Loss Bride ‘The Wedding Dress I Wish I'd Worn'

This Determined Woman Is Recreating Her Most Magical Day – 61 Kilos Lighter

- Keeley Henderson

Dressed in a figure hugging, vintage style wedding gown, stunning bride Daniela Beris  radiated happiness.

‘Looking in the mirror, I couldn’t stop staring at myself. I have never felt so beautiful,’ the 35-year-old Melburnian says.

But this wasn’t Daniela’s wedding day. This was a New Idea photoshoot to celebrate Daniela’s incredible transformation and help put her painful past behind her.

When Daniela married Dennis, 37, in October 2013, she was a completely different woman – at least on the outside.

Although now she weighs 75kg and is a size 10, back then Daniela was 136kg and a size 26.

An enthusiastic cook, she loved to whip up homemade pasta and risottos so delicious that resisting a second helping was practically impossible.

And while she exercised regularly, Daniela had a habit of overeating – she simply ate what she wanted, when she wanted.

‘I would do the hair, the make-up, to cover how I was really feeling on the inside, which was unattractive,’ she admits.

‘On my wedding day, I had a hard time looking at myself in the mirror. Even though that dress was amazingly designed, it wasn’t what I wanted.

‘It’s what I settled for because it hid the arms, the belly, it had a built-in corset. I couldn’t breathe the whole day, it was so tight.’