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Kate Graham & Saffron Otter

'Doctors said I was too fat to have triplets and asked if I wanted them terminated'

At 21 stone and 5ft4, Ange knows all too well the judgement that comes with being plus-size - but the scrutiny she faced stepped up during her pregnancies.

She gave birth to a daughter in 2016 and earlier this year, surprisingly discovered she was pregnant with triplets at the age of 38. But concerned about her health, she claims doctors offered to terminate one or two of the babies, which left the mum appalled.

"I've always been a bigger person," she said. "Even though I'm healthy and go to the gym regularly, there's always judgement." When she first fell pregnant at the age of 31 in 2015 with her daughter Dottie, Ange, from Somerset, didn't know her weight, but was a dress size 24.

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