21st 8lb bride who was reduced to tears by cruel passers-by on her wedding day has shed ELEVEN stone

A bride lost 11st after passers-by teased her for being fat as she posed for her wedding photos. Chloe Dodds, of Seaham, Durham, walked down the aisle in a size 30 gown after ballooning to 21st 8lb on a diet of Sugar Puffs, pizza and chips.

She was reduced to tears as by-standers heckled her with comments such as 'you look so fat in that dress!' as she posed for pictures beside her wedding car. The ceremony had to be delayed for 15 minutes as Chloe, 35, bawled her eyes out and she sobbed tears of despair - not joy - as she walked down the aisle.

Delighted carer Chloe, now a size 12, told Daily Mail: 'I was mortified when I heard those comments. It was my wedding day and people had heckled me - I was a curvy bride but did I really deserve such taunts? I thought there was an unwritten rule that you always complimented a bride, no matter what.'

But the real shock came when her official wedding photos arrived - and she was so horrified by her appearance she vowed to lose weight.

'As I looked through the wedding pictures, I couldn’t believe how fat I was - I knew I couldn’t carry on like that,' she said.

Chloe quickly changed out of her wedding dress and into comfortable baggy clothes at the reception and vowed to change her ways. She visited her doctor and explained that all previous diets, slimming classes and pills had failed and asked to be considered for a gastric band. She was told to slim down to 18st before she could go under the knife.

She took two years to lose the weight and finally had the operation at Sunderland Royal Hospital in June last year. Now, a year later, her diabetes has disappeared and she has slimmed down to a 10st 12lb and size 12.

'I physically can’t eat much and I don’t want to', said Chloe, who is a full-time carer for her mother Joyce, 59, along with husband Paul, 37.

'I eat a boiled egg for breakfast, a jacket potato with cheese for lunch and a small portion of shepherd’s pie for dinner.

'I have some excess skin, which is common in rapid weight loss. I’m saving up to have my bingo wings removed. And after we’ve had children, I’ll have a tummy tuck too.’

'Those cruel jibes ruined my wedding day, but I think I got the last laugh. I’m finally who I want to be.'

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