Margaret Miles-Bramwell

Margaret Miles-Bramwell OBE or Margaret Glynis Whittaker (1948 – 2 February 2025) was the British founder of Slimming World and its charity SMILES. She was adopted by a couple and brought up in Derbyshire. Pregnancy ended her time at Grammar School and she was a married mother by sixteen. She co-founded Slimming World and it grew to have thousands of branches. She later bought a yacht company, a club in Mallorca and was declared Business Woman of the Year.