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I'm a new woman - thanks to R-Patz - New!, July 6, 2010
Cathy Ward was so thankful to the Twilight characters for inspiring her to lose weight, she had them tattooed on her back. This week, Eclipse, the third installment of the Twilight series, is released in cinemas.
The books and films about a girl who falls in love with a vampire has captivated teenage girls - and grown women - around the world. But for one, it has changed her life more than most.
Cathy Ward, 49, has struggled with her weight her whole life. As a professional cake maker, she spent her days surrounded by food and was unable to resist temptation.
Then, after a friend gave her a Twilight DVD, Cathy was soon obsessed, and with all her time spent thinking about vampires instead of cakes, the weightstarted falling off.
She was so thrilled she decided to have the characters permanently scrawled on her back...
She started calling me 'old bean'... then she left me for a man of 51 - Mail on Sunday, June 27, 2010
Mike Hollingsworth knew his marriage was in serious trouble but it was only last Thursday that he was forced to accept it was over for good.
Picking up his wife’s passport, a boarding-pass stub fell on to the floor. The date was May 14 and it was in the name of man called Anthony Swift.
‘That was the time she said she had been to Ireland with her friend Rosie,’ Mike says. ‘I realised this affair had been going on for some time. I’d been taken for a fool.’
For a man used to being in control, this is no easy admission. But then recent events have exacted a terrible toll on Anne Diamond’s former husband...
My daughter Starved herself to look like posh - Woman's Own, February 1, 2010
Lynne Johnston talks about how she nearly lost her daughter, Rachael, to anorexia because of a photograph of skinny celeb Victoria Beckham.
Read on for more about Rachael Johnston's story...
I vowed not to eat until I was as thin as Posh - Daily Mirror, August 6, 2009
I'd look at the pictures of Victoria Beckham for hours and hours - those stick-thin legs and jutting collar bones.
‘Doesn't she look amazing’ I'd think.
I was just 13 at the time but I'd pinned a picture of my head on to Posh's body. It was my inspiration - what I could look like if I could just stop eating for long enough.
That picture hadn't been airbrushed but for anyone in doubt about whether photos of celebrities affect the way teenage girls think, I am living proof (though only just living).
For four years I starved myself to look like Victoria and my other idol Nicole Richie.
Anorexia came to rule my life and messed me up so much I even tried to kill myself three times...
Read the full Daily Mirror article here
Rachael's story also featured in Reveal magazine.
A perfect family shattered in the blink of an eye - Daily Mail, November 25, 2009
On that crisp December morning last year, Caroline Johnson was
running through a long mental checklist of things to do as she hurried out to clear the ice from her car windscreen.
First, she had to take her son to school, and was then planning to head off to the supermarket to do the family shop and start thinking about Christmas dinner.
A familiar enough routine for many working mothers, but it was to be disrupted in the most shockingly cruel of ways.
As the 46-year-old part-time veterinary nurse scraped her windscreen outside her home in Langley, Berkshire, she was knocked to the ground by a carjacking thief who jumped into the driving seat and, ignoring her frantic pleas, revved the engine and roared off.
Flung to the floor and trapped under the wheels, Caroline was dragged 65 feet along the road and left in a pool of blood, catastrophically injured...
View the full Daily Mail feature here
Caroline's story also appeared in Best magazine and News Of The World, December 28, 2008. You can view the News Of The World feature here
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Groom spared jail for attacking bride - Reveal, November 2009
A groom who assaulted his bride on their wedding night was spared jail after his now-estranged wife sent magistrates a letter begging for mercy.
Stephen Grimwood grabbed terrified Denise Manning by the wrists and threw her on the bed of the bridal suite at the posh hotel where they had held their plush reception.
The 38-year-old then placed a pillow over her head in a bid to stop her telling her family of the drunken row before she managed to escape and alert workers at the Hotel in Windsor, Berkshire.
However, at a sentencing hearing, Miss Manning aged 33 years, who has not spent a single night living with her husband since the March 28 incident, begged them to spare the worried defendant jail.
Couple wed after 34 year wait - Sunday Mirror, November 15, 2009
Childhood sweethearts Dee Mair and Gary Matthew, who were split up by their concerned parents as young teenagers,
finally got married 34 years later.
"We were young and in love all those years ago, just like Romeo and Juliet. Although we went our separate ways, there wasn't a day I didn't think of Dee..."
Joanna Kennard - Holiday Rape Victim - Fabulous, May 5, 2009
"The man jumped at me from the darkness and I tried to scream for help, but he punched me harder and harder."
"My mouth was filling up with blood and all I could see in my mind was an image of my seven-year-old daughter Lacey," she says quietly. "I just kept thinking: 'This can't be the last day I ever see my daughter..."