People‘s current issue is a special double one, with the featured story ‘How they did it – half their Size.’  The mag has all the details not only on how Miss South Carolina, Bree Boyce lost over 100lbs but other fabulous stories about remarkable people and their astonishing weight loss achieved without surgery or gimmicks.

People Magazine has much more: “I used to make fun of my weight with others to fit in and be the funny, overweight girl,” Boyce, 22, tells PEOPLE in this week’s annual Half Their Size cover story.   “I’d go home and cry, not because of what others had said about me, but about what I had said about myself,” she adds.

“It was embarrassing because a 17-year-old shouldn’t be sitting in a doctor’s office having this kind of conversation,” says Boyce. “I knew there were so many things I wanted to do in life – I wanted to be on Broadway, go to school, get married, have a family.”

To see all the amazing transformation photos and to read the entire article, get your copy of People magazine on news stands now.