I didn't have to pay for breast implants

As a teenager, Sharon Brown longed for a curvier figure. When her breasts failed to grow beyond a size 34B, she pleaded with doctors for help.

Her GP initially refused to offer her surgery, describing her as a "late developer", but she was offered free implants on the NHS when she was 32.

Ms Brown said: "I was amazed and thrilled to be offered implants on the NHS. I had assumed I would have to pay for them. I had been unhappy with my figure for years and was desperate to do something."

Doctors offered her surgery on the basis of a report by the psychologist she was referred to when she initially went to her GP at the age of 18.

The operation, at London's Charing Cross Hospital, took her to a size 34C.

She said: "I had to show that my figure was affecting me psychologically. They then agreed to make me a size in proportion to my body weight." The 36-year-old businesswoman later had buttock implants, which she paid for herself.

She is now proud of her figure, saying: "I no longer feel the need to make myself look invisible."