A HEAVYWEIGHT bride who ate 18 bags of crisps a day lost six stone with a gastric band – to fit into a wedding dress.

Faye Wells, 33, was a size 24 and weighed 15st when she came across the “dress of her dreams”.

But the ivory gown was FIVE SIZES too small.

After years of failed diets, secretary Faye had the band fitted in an op.

It limits stomach size and forces patients to eat small food portions.

She was only allowed soup for the first two weeks, followed by foods like mashed potato for the following two weeks.

Ten months later and weighing 9st, she walked down the aisle in the dress to wed hubby Joel, 32.

Thrilled

Mum-of-two Faye, of Birmingham, said: “It was the first dress I saw and I fell in love with it. But I couldn’t do it up – my fat just hung over the sides.

“I vowed there and then to fit into the dress in time for my wedding day.

“When I fitted into it I was thrilled to bits.”

CHUBBY kids as young as ten are popping anti-obesity pills, shock figures have revealed.

Prescriptions for the treatments, which can have serious side-effects,have soared 15-fold in under a decade. Five per cent were given to kids age ten and 11.

The tablets – like popular weight-loss pill Alli – are only meant for adults.

But a loophole allows GPs to dole them out.

Source: The Sun