Having dropped an amazing 90kg between them, Lara and Leigh are falling in love all over again, and dreaming of their wedding day.
Leigh Westren and Lara Whalan admit they had all but given up on their hopes of having a dream wedding – let alone the idea of Leigh carrying his beautiful bride across the threshold. Before they signed up for The Biggest Loser: Families, the young couple couldn’t even put their arms around each other to share a loving embrace. But that’s all changed now.
Not only are they enjoying their amazing new bodies after shedding a whopping 90kg between them, they are also falling in love with each other all over again. They have to, they point out, as they now barely recognise each other!
“Towards the end of my time in The Biggest Loser house, I was giving Leigh a cuddle, and said, ‘Oh my gosh, I feel like I am cheating on you with another guy!’” laughs Lara, 25, who weighed in at 107kg when she joined the show. “When you are hugging this figure that is all of a sudden skinny and muscly… I said, ‘Leigh, keep talking to me because this is weird!’”
The gorgeous couple can’t keep their eyes or hands off each other at the Woman’s Day photo shoot, and it’s easy to see why – they have never looked better.
“I brought my first pair of jeans!” Lara exclaims. “I was an eleven, but hopefully I am a size 10 now.”
As for her “spunky” boyfriend, who unlike Lara is still in the running for The Biggest Loser crown, she can’t stop gushing about his amazing transformation. “Leigh looks like he has just come froma Calvin Klein shoot,” Lara says, ogling him from across the studio. And Lara, who was eliminated in week 10 of the competition having lost a total of 40kg, isn’t the only one impressed – Leigh struggles to find the words to describe his girlfriend’s makeover and simply says, “Lara looks amazing.”
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