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DAD OF TWO LIVING A LIE I feared my husband was having an affair.. but was the other woman

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he’d given a lift to. I was convinced he had another wom woman but it turned out he wante wanted to be a woman. I cried and sa said, ‘I don’t know if I can do this this.’

“Then I realised I was being selfish and would make him miserable if he could couldn’t be who he wanted to be. H He was still the same person inside and I still love him.”

After revealin revealing he was a woman trapped in a man’s body Zoey, who is studying to be a sound engineer, en was terrified te she’d lose Kelly and their children George, ten, and Molly, eight. She said: “I was risking everything, but I couldn’t keep it hidden any longer as it was making me depressed. Kelly was shocked but supportive.

“I’m lucky because our relationsh­ip is now stronger than ever.”

With his neatly trimmed beard and cropped hair, strapping Warren was Kelly’s dream man when they met in a pub in 2007. They married the following year, with Warren in a top hat and tails and Kelly an emerald green dress.

She said: “We were so excited to be husband and wife.

“Two days later I discovered I was pregnant and we were thrilled.”

Warren was a hands-on dad and loved singing in a band and skating.

Kelly didn’t think anything was wrong with their perfect marriage until they began planning a fancy dress party for their 10th wedding anniversar­y last year. She recalled: “We both love the 80s, so decided to have that as our theme. I was going to go as the receptioni­st out of Beetlejuic­e while Warren wanted to go as a skater girl. I thought it’d be fun, but he began obsessing about it.

“He shaved off his beard, did a complete body wax and started using diet pills. He even used measuring tape and bought a corset to cinch in his waist.

“Afterwards I noticed he kept wearing the corset, which I thought was odd. I kept asking what was wrong but he said he was fine. He wouldn’t let me see his phone. I was sure he had someone else.”

Eventually Kelly confronted her husband and he revealed the truth.

She said: “He told me he wanted to be a woman then he burst into tears.

“The rest of the night was a blur as I was so shocked. Slowly, as we talked, I realised I had to let Warren be Zoey. It

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