A mother-of-one almost took her own life after failing to lose weight - but was stopped when her three-year-old daughter sweetly giggled in her sleep.
Jennifer Malik, 29, thought she was a 'fat, useless mum' as she was so large she couldn't play properly with her daughter Naomi in the park.
However as she sat clutching pills at home Mrs Malik started crying as she watched her sleeping daughter and knew things had to change, reports the Mirror.
Since then she's managed to lose 15st in the first 16 months and says making healthier choices and shedding the pounds has made such a difference.
Jennifer Malik, 29, thought about taking her own life but was stopped when her then three-year-old daughter Naomi, pictured with her mother and father Billy, giggled in her sleep
Mrs Malik explained how she had been bullied all her life for being overweight. In primary school her peers would call her 'fat'.
When she moved up to high school, other pupils would throw things at her and kick her. They would even stand up in class to tell her her legs were 'too big'.
Mrs Malik claims strangers would point and laugh at her on the street every time she left the house.
She said that even 'when I got all dressed up for a night out, people would laugh and call me a beached whale.'
She also revealed that she was scared for her daughter as she might be 'teased for having the massive mum.'
The mother stopped leaving the house because she was too scared about the comments people would make.
Mrs Malik said she would comfort eat and have 'at least four or five takeaways a week like pizzas, burgers, kebabs. I also ate pot noodles and pies.'
She says she was stuck in a vicious cycle of eating
