Laura is "so glad" she has lost weight (Image: PA Real Life) Laura Finlow, a resilient mother-of-five from Milton Keynes, has shed an incredible eight stone despite facing a series of harrowing ordeals. Back in 2013, Laura suffered a devastating loss as her mother, Janice, succumbed to lung cancer at the age of 57. In a cruel twist of fate, that very week, Laura's husband, James, was diagnosed with leukaemia.
"It was really, really hard," Laura confessed. At the time of grieving, Laura had to return to work and put on a brave face in front of customers. "I lost my best friend," she said.
"You just want to sort of shut yourself off to the world and cry." Weighing 15 stone at the time, and standing at just 5ft 3in, the mum found solace in food for years, which saw her peak at a weight of 19st and 5lb (123kg) by 2017. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.
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