So, I've never been particularly skinny but I've always been quite comfortable with my 'normal' pear shaped, size 12 body.
That was until I started having children! During my first pregnancy I put on quite a bit of weight and it took a while and quite a few failed diets for me to get back from a size 16 - 18 to a weight I was comfortable with. One of my main motivations when I finally managed to keep to a diet (with the help of Rosemary Conley diet and fitness classes) to shed the pounds (and stones!) was that we wanted to try for another baby and I wasn't going to put either my or my baby's health at risk by getting pregnant while so heavily overweight. It was around Christmas 2009 (over two years after I had given birth to my son) that I was eventually back to a figure I was happy with and even proud of!