Regrets? I Have a Few but Surgery Isn't One ; a Campaign has Been Launched to Make Socalled 'Fatism' a Hate Crime. Colette Warbrook Speaks to a Mother-of-Three Who Was Verbally Abused About Her Weight for Years and has Now Lost Six Stone Following a Major Weight Loss Operation

Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › October 28, 2009

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ON THE outside, Catherine Huffey laughed off comments like "beached whale", but inside the cruel jibes hurt.

The 43-year-old, of Thanet Grove, Longton, developed faster than other girls at her school and was a size 14 from her teens to her early 20s.

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Regrets? I Have a Few but Surgery Isn't One ; a Campaign has Been Launched to Make Socalled 'Fatism' a Hate Crime. Colette Warbrook Speaks to a Mother-of-Three Who Was Verbally Abused About Her Weight for Years and has Now Lost Six Stone Following a Major Weight Loss Operation

But during her first pregnancy her weight rose by four-and-a- half stone, taking her to a dress size 24-26.

Since then, Catherine, who is mum to Adam, aged 20, Joel, aged 16, and Brianna, pictured below right, aged three, has struggled with her figure.

Then, earlier this year, she took the step of going under the surgeon's knife for a gastric bypass operation, and no...

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