Margaret sheds the pounds to celebrate 18th birthday in style

Cork third-level student Margaret O’Donovan is UniSlim’s Youth Ambassador after shedding 4st 7lbs so she could buy the clothes she wanted for her 18th birthday.

Margaret, from Leap, Co Cork, who is studying psychology at Cork College of Commerce, weighed 15st 7lbs stone when she became the youngest member of the local UniSlim class in May last year.

“People think teenagers do crash diets and a lot of girls thought I was on diet pills but I told them that the weight loss was down to something much healthier than that... just healthy eating and exercise,” she said.