Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
'My son was too ashamed for me to take him to school - look at me now'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA pizza-loving mum lost six stone after her son became 'ashamed of her' taking him to school. Becky White, from Bolton, used to weigh more than 17 stone and was a size 24.
The 41-year-old said she would binge on whole packs of donuts and chocolate bars and 'loved pizza'. Feeling 'crushed', she realised something needed to change when her embarrassed son would ask her to drop him off near school, rather than right outside. READ MORE: Mum, 23, has breasts so big they strangle her when she lies down - but the NHS 'won't help' Becky has now lost six stone and weighs 11 stone nine pounds.
She said she first began gaining weight after she left home and went to university. She had two children, Harvey, now 18, and Evlynn, now 14, but her relationship broke down, and again she piled on the pounds.
At only 5ft tall, she tipped the scales at 17 stone and 9 pounds. She said: "I loved pizza, and I ate whole packs of donuts and chocolate bars. "I had a couple of bad relationships and my confidence suffered, and so I just ate more. "My son started asking me to drop him near school, not at school, and I realised that he was ashamed of me. "That was upsetting but I could understand why he felt like that." Becky said she met a new partner Mark, who was fit and active - but she felt she was too big to even go out for a walk with him. "We love going to the races for a treat now, but before it got to the stage where I was too big to fit into a dress and my feet burned with the extra weight I was carrying", she added. "I became really worried that he would leave me for someone slimmer, even though he was very supportive. "I realised that I had to make a change." In November 2020, Becky signed up for the Cambridge 1:1 diet. "I found the
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