Why I have no regrets over letting my teen daughter have a gastric band
You may remember Juliet and Katie Hill’s story from November last year, when they appeared in the Daily Mail. Four years ago, Katie became Britain’s youngest gastric band patient after her mum paid for her to fly out to Belgium for the operation when she was just 14. At more than 18 stone, Katie was […]
Cancer boy failed by NHS goes to Germany – Daily Mail story
As soon as we heard about the desperate situation faced by Sam Knighton, we knew a newspaper would be keen to feature her story. Sam’s little boy Zac, 7, is battling cancer, and his lifesaving operation has been cancelled twice due to bed shortages. In desperation, Sam decided to take her son to Germany where […]
Eight years, £36k of IVF and a surrogate – incredible TTTP story appears in the Sun newspaper.
Joy Ward, 36, from Swansea, almost gave up on her dreams of becoming a mother when she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in May 2009. Unlike most breast cancer sufferers, Joy wasn’t scared of dying, or losing a breast, she was scared the inevitable chemotherapy would destroy all her viable eggs […]
Mother and teenage daughter battling osteoporosis share their story in today’s Sun
Today TTTP client Julie Hopkins appears in The Sun newspaper, where she tells her heart breaking story of how osteoporosis is blighting her and her teenage daughter’s life. A few years ago Julie, 42, was healthy and had an active lifestyle. So when she started suffering back pain at the age of 27 she put […]
How I lost an incredible 14 stone in time for Christmas
Like all mums, Michele Faranda-Lee is excited about giving her young kids a big hug on Christmas morning. But until recently this was impossible – because Michele was too fat. Just a couple of years ago Michele, 42, was a size 32 and tipped the scales at 24 stone. But the mum of three is […]
This week’s Chat magazine – baking cakes cured my post-natal depression
This week, Vicky Ponsonby features in Chat magazine where she talks about how baking Christmas cakes cured her postnatal depression and saved her marriage. Vicky, now 38, had always enjoyed cooking but with a hectic career as a defence engineer and a young child had only ever had time to make the occasional cake – most […]
Why I don’t regret letting my daughter have a gastric band at just 14
Just four years ago 18-year-old Katie Hill weighed more than 18 stone and was a size 26. It was no life for a 14-year-old girl and Katie feared that one day she would become housebound. But her life changed dramatically when she became the youngest person in Britain to have a gastric band fitted after […]
Meet the mum who takes 50 photos a day so as not to forget precious moments with her son
Katie Booth’s story about how she’s copes with her short term memory loss appeared in the Daily Mirror on Friday. Katie, who lives in Spain with her partner Jonathan and their son Elliot, suffered a brain aneurysm when she was four months pregnant and had to undergo emergency surgery to save her life. Amazingly she […]
Inspirational mother shares her story with Best magazine
This week Ingrid Poulson’s inspiring story about how she survived the most awful loss imaginable appeared in Best magazine. Ingrid, 39, from Australia, had to learn to live again after her estranged husband brutally murdered their two young children and her father in 2003. In the bleak days and weeks that followed Ingrid wanted to […]
Couple share their incredible weight loss story with Now magazine
Just a year ago Emily Elliot, 30, and her husband Stuart, 32, were both very overweight. Emily weighed almost 14 stone while her husband was more than 23 stone and they used to kid themselves they ate fairly healthily, when in reality they would pig out on takeaways and sugary snacks. Fed up with not […]
