When personal trainer, Victoria Spence dreamt of achieving a thigh gap, she didn't realise her obsession would leave her body gripped by anorexia. In a quest for bone-thin thighs, at her worst, the 20-year-old survived on just 600 calories a day - excessively exercising for over 10 hours a day. By January last year, she weighed a dangerous 5st 8lb - and medics told her unless she started eating more, she would be hospitalised. Care-free and body confident at 16, the pretty blonde from Worsley, Manchester, had always been happy with the way she looked. Standing at 5ft 6in tall, Victoria weighed a healthy 8st 5lb.
A mum who weighed just 8st 1lb at eight months pregnant has battled her eating disorder to give birth to a healthy baby girl .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
A woman was left shocked after her hunky boyfriend confessed he was actually born a GIRL .
A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .
An adorable red squirrel says goodbye to the summer as he shelters from the rain underneath a small blue umbrella .
SHOVELLING food into his mouth, this hungry gorilla enjoys a peaceful moment at dinner time .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
A mother-of-two has revealed how her son became a human fireball after a dangerous 'TikTok challenge' went wrong .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .