A beautiful woman in her 40s sits in a restaurant. It’s a late summer evening, and the air is scented with garlic and herbs. Suddenly, there is a commotion in the kitchen, as staff jostle at the door to peer at her. Surprisingly, it’s not for her striking looks, but her food order. A huge steak and nothing else ‘for the lady’ is surely one of the strangest requests they’ve had. But for Jill Gardner, 44, the lady in question — a petite, size 10 one at that — it’s something she’s grown used to over the past year. […]
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