A woman who lives in constant pain and takes an hour every morning to get out of bed has revealed what it's really like living with size 36M breasts. 

Battling through a crippling sore back, which makes her unable to lift up her eight-month-old daughter, Melissa Ashcroft took to This Morning on Tuesday to reveal the realities of having a larger chest as she crowd funds for breast reduction surgery. 

Melissa, 30, joined hosts Ben Shephard and Alison Hammond on the sofa as to speak candidly about the horrifying affects of her large breasts which have 'ruined her life' since puberty. 

The mother-of-one revealed that while she was not larger chested as a young teen, when she did develop breasts, they continued to grow for many years, now weighing more than a stone each. 

By the time Melissa was 20, her breasts were so large that she would develop aches and pains, and have 'cuts' left in her skin from her bra straps holding up her chest.

She revealed: 'It's funny because when I look back now, I actually got bullied for having a flat chest - and probably around year ten everyone's seemed to have stopped growing or stayed the same, and mine just were continuously growing. 

'I didn't have any girlfriends, if you will, to compare to - and that's what made it more difficult for me personally. [My mum] is quite big chested as well, so she would say, "it's just in the genes, it's normal, that's us, it's hereditary". 

'By the time I was in college, that's when it was just getting ridiculous - the pains I was getting in my shoulders, I was getting cuts from my bra straps. 

'I thought, "This can't continue, it can't go on". I've got a slipped disc because of it.'

Things got so bad for Melissa that she felt she had to move away from home, after locals began 'sexualising' her looks, despite it leaving her in crippling discomfort. 

'It was a city life, so I got a lot of stares, mostly from men if I'm honest as it's quite a sexualised thing,' she continued. 'For me, I just thought, "Everywhere I go I'm getting started at.'

'Then I moved to Scotland, and it was so rural, so you've got neighbours that are sheep and cows and I thought, "That's perfect because the sheep aren't looking". So that's why I've stayed up there mostly.' 

Melissa has been working towards getting breast reduction surgery, but has so far been denied the treatment on the NHS because of her BMI. 

BMI is a screening tool that uses height and weight to estimate body fat, and helps classify individuals as underweight, healthy, overweight, or obese.  

While the mother-of-one has considered trying a weight-loss jab to get her to surgery-ready weight, she admitted she has other health complications that would make that a 'risk'.  

Melissa explained: 'My BMI has got to be 27 - I've got to maintain it for a year. My BMI right now is 35... you've got the risks of blood clots, the risks of complications, there's risks of all sorts.'

Host Alison pointed out: 'You're in a catch 22 - your breasts weigh two and a half stone, if you took that off, you'd probably be within the safe BMI. It's like the breasts are the reason you're out of your BMI.'

'Exactly,' Melissa added. 'They've not really given me much support over it. As people say, it's probably very cliche, but it would literally change my life [to have the surgery].'

Now, Melissa is crowdfunding for the surgery, which costs £13,500. 

The Scottish Government responded in a statement: 'We recognise the importance of issuing clinically appropriate access to procedures, actions must be fair, transparent and evidence based. 

'The National Referral Protocol developed and agreed by an expert clinical group does not aim to restrict access, but aims to ensure that people who will benefit from these procedures will do so.'

It comes after This Morning star Jordon Cox has opened up about his agonising health battle, revealing he was left 'unable to walk' and in 'crippling pain'. 

The presenter, dubbed the Coupon King on the ITV daytime series, regularly appears on the show to showcase the best deals - but on Friday, sat down with hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary to discuss being diagnosed with Crohn's Disease.

Jordon, 28, was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 17, and had to be hospitalised while he underwent treatment, including having a temporary stoma bag, a ileostomy, fitted. 

He recounted how he'd struggled with bad stomach cramps throughout his teenage years, but the disease took hold after a serious bout of food poisoning. 

After 'never getting better' from the food poisoning, Jordon battled with doctors to get a colonoscopy where the Crohn's was discovered. 

The disease is a type of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation in the digestive tract - and there is currently no cure. 

He told Dermot, 52, and Alison, 50: 'I still get a little bit choked up looking at pictures because when you're in it, you don't realise how bad you are.

'When you're diagnosed with any disease, it's quite a lonely thing. Most of the time, you don't know what it is and don't know anyone else with it. 

'So, you're given this diagnosis bombshell, and then you're like, "What now? Where do we go from here?"'

Explaining how his health declined in 2018, Jordon recalled: 'Things got incredibly worse and it got to a point where my bowel just wasn't absorbing anything.

'I had quite bad diarrhoea, I had a lot of blood in my stool. Every time I ate, all the nutrients wouldn't be absorbed because my bowel wasn't working. 

'Throughout that time, I lost so much weight. I was down to six stone ten in weight. I was skin and bone at that point. I don't want to say it, but I was probably a few months away from my body giving up completely.  

'When I got admitted to hospital, [the doctors] were like, "You need surgery. You need a bit of your bowel removed that's really bad". 

'But I was too thin, I didn't have enough energy in my body. To hear that wasn't great. They were like, "You need a bit more to you, otherwise you're not going to survive a pretty major surgery". 

'They hooked me up to something called TPN, which is total parenteral nutrition. It went through a wire in my arm or neck, where 24 hours a day, I was just being fed through that.'

Jordon later contracted sepsis and had to return to hospital, this time for the surgery he needed in order to help improve his condition. 

Doctors removed 30cm of diseased bowel from Jordan, and fitted him with an ileostomy bag to give his body a rest - a move Jordon revealed 'gave him his life back'. 

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