The obese woman, her diet plan and the bride-to-be that died...

Perhaps Jackie Cox deliberately ignored the standard advice for larger ladies when she chose her fancy-dress outfit for her company's annual sales jamboree.

How else to explain the vast, multi-coloured Harlequin costume with cascading ruffles clinging to a figure which, if being kind, you would call portly, and, less generously, grossly overweight?

Ms Cox seems to be revelling in all her roly-poly flamboyance, despite the fact that as an advert for the dieting company she co-founded 13 years ago, it seems a rather own goal. More... 

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