For better or worse, in sickness and in health, till death do us part. Those are the vows that Jennifer Atkin from Ulceby, Lincolnshire and her fiancée would have made, if you know, he hadn’t dumped her for being plus-sized.
Sadly, this is one of those cases where love doesn’t conquer all, and you don’t get to live happily ever after with the guy you thought was Prince Charming. But after being dumped, and picking up the pieces of her broken heart, Jennifer worked hard to get a revenge body that would ultimately make her ex-fiance kick himself for ending it as he did.
This is what 24-year-old Jennifer Atkin looked like when she was engaged.
She considered herself a size 22 “couch potato” who weighed 243 pounds, and she got that big after she binged on takeaway meals.
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Now, weddings can be pretty nerve wracking, so it’s totally okay to stress eat a bit.
But Jennifer stress ate a lot, but that still didn’t excuse her fiancee from doing what he did, especially since Jen was in the midst of planning her dream wedding.
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After crying for days, she decided that she wanted a big change.
So on her birthday, as she blew out the candles on her cake, she wished for the strength to lose weight and get back in shape.
It was as if the blue fairy from Disney had come down and granted Jen her wish.
Wow! Tell us she doesn’t look amazing! Her transformation is beyond remarkable. She looks like a completely different woman.
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She can thank her mega slim down to a complete change in lifestyle.
She started eating healthier and going to the gym to work out a lot more. Eventually, this helped her to get the killer body she and her ex wanted.
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With a new attitude and a healthier lifestyle, Jennifer turned her life around.
She dropped 110 pounds, and went from a size 22 to a size 10. Now that’s what we call the best revenge against her fiance ever.
Jen admitted that something was definitely missing from her relationship with Tom.
She claimed that there was this huge void between them and that’s why both of them would stuff their faces with food in order to fill that emptiness.
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Jen finds it ironic that her fiance dumped her for being plus size.
She claims she wouldn’t have gotten so careless with her weight if it weren’t for him as he would often eat junk food and encouraged her to do the same.
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At 130 pounds, Jennifer now feels extremely beautiful.
She even entered the Miss Genting Sheffield contest, where if she wins, she’ll become Miss England. She might even win Miss World.
It feels like Jennifer is living a completely different life.
She used to always hide her weight and now she’s walking around with so much confidence because she feels great, and looks it too.
The irony is that a hot girl like Jen doesn’t stay single for long.
Seven months after her split from her fiancé, she decided to hammer the final nail in Tom’s, her ex-fiancé’s, coffin and started dating Chris Wilkinson, one of his most hated cousins.
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What started out as nothing more than a revenge tactic became something more.
It turns out that Jen and Chris really were in love, and this ultimately led to the two becoming engaged.
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Eventually, Jen and Chris took things to the next level.
Oh yes! Tom must be pouting like a naughty kid at Christmas after getting Jen’s wedding invitation to his cousin Chris. That’s right, she finally got her fairy tale happy ending with Chris, and Tom is probably kicking himself.
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Who would have imagined that something good could come out of something so terrible?
A breakup that had devastated her ended up being the best thing that ever happened to her after Tom, whom she met back in March of 2011, dumped her like she was nothing.
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Her fiancé would often bring pizza and junk food to pack on the pounds.
He also got Jen to spend weekends with him eating nachos and other junk food while watching movies for 48 hours straight. No wonder, she got all plumped up like this.
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Now, we’re not going to say that when Jen met Tom in 2011, she was a thin model.
She already weighed 203 pounds. It was only after turning into a weekend recluse and stuffing her face on fast food that she got chunkier, which is a huge departure from whom she is now.
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Now that Jen has a shot at being Miss England, there are a few things she learned.
According to the pageant’s organizer, Angie Beasley, “Miss England is not just a beauty pageant.” She added that “the girls have to prove they are talented and charitable and create an outfit made from recycled materials to model on the catwalk, but they also have to be inspiring to others.”
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Even before Tom ended things on March 2015, Jen was confident about her body.
This is something that she always felt was important because, like RuPaul says, “if you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love anybody else?”
Jen had bought a house when she was still together with Tom, and this proved to be an advantage.
After she became single, she a lot more time to herself, so she concentrated more on going to the gym, and made a lot of friends there who helped her to educate herself on what she needed to eat to become a healthier person.
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Jen also taught herself how to cook healthy meals using online recipes.
It was only a matter of time before her weight started coming off. Her asthma also improved. She was less stressed, her skin and hair looked healthier and she had so much more energy.
In her effort to slim down to hopefully win the pageant, she has worked hard towards a better body.
However, Jen says that she has never felt pressure or put pressure on herself to change. It’s more like she has chosen to do things at her own pace and if anyone has any issue with that, then that’s their problem.
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Jen has lived in Ulceby most of her life, so she’s become something of a celebrity.
As her story has continued to go viral, those in her village have felt inspired and proud to call Jen one of her neighbors, especially given that the village is small and there isn’t a whole lot of people Jen’s age living there.
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Jen won’t have to wait long to see if she’s one of the winners of the pageant.
The Miss England final will be held at Resorts World Birmingham on July 14th, 2017, which is right around the corner, and we’re rooting for Jen to win. Meanwhile, she’ll have to jump another hurtle in June at the Kelham Hall in Newark, where the Miss England semi-finals are being held.
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Jen isn’t the kind of person that would generally hold grudges.
To that end, she certainly does wish her ex Tom all the best, but has confessed that secretly she hopes he’ll hate himself for what he did.
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Jennifer has now become an icon for other women in her shoes.
For all those women who don’t believe they can lose the extra pounds or don’t believe they’ll find true love, Jen’s story will give them the encouragement they need to pick themselves up and do what she did to find happiness in the end.
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