A young woman who dropped seven dress sizes has been named Miss Slinky.

Nat Price, 27, of Lawling Avenue, Heybridge, joined Slimming World in 2011, weighing 16 stone and wearing size 20 clothes.

She now wears size eight clothes, having lost five and a half stone.

Members of her Slimming World group nominated her for the title.

Nat decided to lose weight after her health started to decline at the age of 24 and she decided it was ‘now or never’.

Nat said: “I was bullied at school which knocked my confidence and I used to eat secretly."