Are you sure you want to do this?’ the anaesthetist at Charing Cross Hospital asked as I lay on the trolley ready for theatre, giving me one last chance to back out.
I was a middle-aged man with a wife and three children but I was convinced I was some kind of woman, and I needed the operation in order to live authentically as one.
‘Yes,’ I said, knowing that what was about to happen would change me for ever
Coming to terms with not realising her life-long dream of having children was difficult enough for former model and television presenter Lisa Snowdon.
However, if that pain wasn’t sufficient to bear, Lisa, 51, tormented herself, in her darkest hours, with thoughts that this devastating outcome might be ‘punishment’ for an abortion she had in her late 20s, a pregnancy she now recognises could have been her ‘one shot’ at motherhood.
Harder still, she has spent the past 20-plus years imagining
A mother claims she felt like she was ‘slowly dying’ after getting a boob job.
Danielle Sheehan, from Norwich, went from a C to DD cup after winning a £5,000 makeover when she was 19.
But the beauty clinic owner was plagued with eczema and inflammation around her eyes, chest and legs, hair loss and fatigue in the years that followed — and couldn’t work out why.
Medics brushed Ms Sheehan’s symptoms off as ‘stress’ or an ‘autoimmune disease’. Tests
