Trent Performing Arts fresher sheds nine stone in just a year

A 24-year-old Trent undergrad has dropped nine stone in a year after being called “big” by her daughter.

Jade Pearson, who’s a Notts local, believes she was turned down from a job because she was overweight, but has since gone on to drop a whopping eight dress sizes and start a performing arts degree at Trent.

Jade used the Cambridge Weight plan to shed the weight and won their “Woman of the year” prize earlier this year.

The mother of two from Bulwell  weighed 21 stone in December last year and was a size 28. But after being declined a job at a hair salon where she overheard one of her would-be bosses calling her “the fat girl”, she decided to radically change her diet and dropped to a slim size 12.

The hairdresser was questioned at the interview on how she would cope with being on her feet all day.

Later that day, her two-year-old daughter pointed at her stomach and said “big”, and she said that was the final push she needed before deciding that enough was enough.

She is now a Performing Arts student at Nottingham Trent and says she has always been passionate about dancing and performing but because of her weight she didn’t have the confidence to start studying it properly.
She told the Daily Mail: “I trained as a hairdresser as I didn’t know what else to try but it was clear that I didn’t fit in with that either. Everyone was attractive and thin, I felt like the odd one out.

“Instead I would comfort eat, in one day I would eat four large chocolate bars, a family size pack of crisps, and that was just snacks.

“I was constantly eating or chewing on something, it was completely out of control and my addiction to food ruled my life.

“After my interview I found it difficult to find the confidence to look for other jobs, but I knew I had to change.”