‘I’ve got my sparkle back’
Debbie Crohn, 45, lives in Hull with husband Nick, 47. She has three grown-up children, Scott, 26, Daniel, 22, and Sophie, 21, and is a programme manager for the NHS.
i’d spent 15 years being a single mother and that was my priority. there was just no time to think about me.
i lost my self-respect and put myself at the bottom of the list when it came to relationships. i felt that i wasn’t important.
My needs always came second and i never met the right person. i didn’t think about myself or my appearance, and i became someone who just made sure everyone else was ok.
i was on my way to new York with my daughter sophie when she took a photo of me at the airport. i was a frumpy size 20 and nothing like i wanted to be. it was in that moment i knew i had to change.
i’d spent my whole life thinking about everyone else and now it was time for me. a few weeks later, i signed up with dating website Plenty of Fish and hit it off with nick.
he showed me i did matter and that a relationship is about love and mutual respect. When we married in september last year, i was a size 12 and felt the most confident i ever have.
now, i don’t recognise myself in the photo. i don’t want to remember the sad and unhappy person i used to be, because i’ve got my sparkle back.
Just like louise redknapp, there comes a point when you have to think about no1.
‘I’d spent my whole life thinking about others’