The mother of THIRTEEN who is a size zero

Her family keeps growing, but she's still 7st 3lbs with a 23in waist (and she's expecting again!)

Celebrity mothers are often praised for regaining their svelte figures soon after giving birth.

Liz Hurley, Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell doubtless have an army of personal trainers and dieticians to help them.

But Joanne Watson had no assistance getting back to a size zero - despite giving birth 13 times.

The 36-year-old grandmother says there is no secret to retaining her remarkable figure -although it may have something to do with the work involved in looking after her enormous family.

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Our sons don't need a father!

Anna Lloyd and Jane Harvey could be any middle-class mothers strolling with their sons in their local park.

But behind their everyday appearance lies a story of a highly unconventional family - for they are lesbian partners, and Oliver and Charlie, aged two, are their twins.

While other boys might grow up kicking a football around with their daddy, this is something the twins, both the product of a course of IVF using an anonymous sperm donor, will never know.

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My daughter could die every three weeks

Little fighter: Sophie Perren, aged eight, who is battling a blood disorder, with her mother Nancy

Sophie suffers from the rare immune system disorder, cyclical neutropenia, which means that not only is she more prone to infections generally, but every two to three weeks she is at serious risk of catching an infection she will be unable to fight.

She has already suffered two bouts of pneumonia, four of septicaemia, numerous throat, ear and chest infections as well as a respiratory virus similar to Sars. She has been hospitalised more than 100 times, resuscitated at least 30 times and been given countless courses of antibiotics.

When Sophie was a baby, her mother assiduously followed doctors' instructions to keep her daughter in a totally sterile environment at home. Anyone who came to the house had to scrub their hands with disinfectant, and every eating utensil, toy and surface Sophie was likely to touch was likewise sterilised.

Sophie was unable to go to nursery school or play with other children. It is every parent's instinct to want to protect their child's life, but Nancy has now taken the difficult decision to remove her daughter from this cocooned world.

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Picture and News from: Daily Mail