But although Jono is now happy with how he looks, he says he struggled with depression during his teenage years.
"I was desperate to have friends, I'd do anything. I had no confidence. I'd buy lots of sweets and give them to the other kids so that they'd like me.
"I ended up doing stupid things so that people would talk about me for a different reason to the way I looked.
"I set a firework off in class, I got up to no good. It was quite often alcohol related, I got quite a bad reputation amongst other mums and teachers."
But he says deep down he was getting lonelier and lonelier.
"I used to hide how unhappy I was from my mum. She had already done so much for me.