Lib Dem leadership hopeful Layla Moran lost half her body weight with gastric band surgery

Layla Moran has revealed she lost around half her body weight after gastric band surgery at the age of 23.  The Liberal Democrat MP and party leadership contender, 37, from London, now wears as slender size 12, but once tipped the scales at just under 20 stone and was a size 24.   Speaking to The Times, … Read more

Fern Britton says she left This Morning over her gastric band

Fern Britton has revealed the initial secrecy surrounding her weight loss via a gastric band was largely behind her shock departure from This Morning back in 2006. The 62-year-old TV personality became a full-time presenter on the ITV staple in 1999, before departing in the summer of 2009 amid persistent rumours of a feud with … Read more