Woman, 22, shamed into losing weight after smashing bench during visit with her boy friend.

A woman was shamed into losing ten stone after she broke a garden bench she sat on when she took her new boyfriend home for the first time. 

Alexandra Collings, 22, was left sitting in a pile of splintered wood after the bench buckled beneath her. 

Alexandra, who weighed 22 stone at the time, had taken her new boyfriend home to meet her mother Brenda, 60, when she perched on the bench - and was mortified to feel it crack beneath her and suddenly give way. 

The humiliation was enough to encourage Alexandra to embark upon the healthy eating and exercise regime that helped her lose 10 stone.

Truly inspiring.