Carla Keech was only 10 years old when she first noticed that her legs were larger than those of other girls her age.
PE lessons were the worst. Not only did she dread changing in front of other girls, but the unflattering gym skirts left her painfully self-conscious.
’I would look at other girls in my class who had toned legs with slim thighs and wonder why mine didn’t look like that,’ says Carla, now 39.
’I didn’t understand why I was gaining weight or why my legs were growing so large – especially when I had a slim waist and collarbones that stuck
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