I couldn’t get rid of my belly fat but doctors told me it was ‘normal’ and ‘hormonal’… until I was told the devastating truth

When Karen Thrussell looks in the mirror she sees the body that betrayed her – and is still coming to terms with the fact she may never be able to ‘trust it again’.

The mother of two, from Melbourne, was diagnosed at the age of 48 with liposarcoma, an extremely rare cancer that grows in fat…