Dolly Wager, after slimming, holds a photograph of herself before slimming. Photograph by the Press Association, 1973.

London (85 Fleet Street, London E.C.4) : The Press Association Ltd., 1973.

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 20.4 x 25.3 cm

Me and my former shadow. Heathrow, Sunday, PA: Eleven-stone Mrs Dolly Wager, of Bexleyheath, Kent, holds cut-out of her former 31-stone self, prior to flying out to New York today. Dolly has taken with her more than half a million signatures from her colleagues in the British Weight Watchers organization to a rally being staged by the American parent organization. June 10th 1973

Wellcome Collection 2141826i