The plight of the woman shopping for plus-size clothing has long been this: resign to a closet full of florals in grandma’s curtains cuts, or scour the rear end of the sales rack and hope to find ...

While many brick-and-mortar high street stores have cottoned onto the value of the plus size pound, it can still be hard to find full collections for clothing larger than a size 16 on the shop floor.

In January Gemma revealed she had dropped two sizes after she began taking diabetes ... off her slimmer frame in a stylish animal print dress and sported glamorous makeup.