Sunday, March 11, 2007

You thought you weighed a lot!

11 March 2007
HIPPO & THIGH DIET

NINE women are giving themselves a constant reminder of how much weight they have lost... by adopting a baby hippo.

The dieters - who have shed more than 35 stone since joining Slimming World - are now "mum" to Venus, a a young pygmy hippo at Colchester Zoo, Essex.

Barbara Fisher of Slimming World, said: "We asked the zoo to find an animal that weighed the same we'd lost - and they came up with Venus, who is perfect."

A zoo spokesman for said: "People adopt our animals for all sorts of reasons, but this is the strangest yet."

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