A mum has celebrated each of her four pregnancies with a host of wacky stunts - including acrobatics, aerial contortion, pole-dancing and risque photo shoots. Sara Joel, 45, from Long Island in New York, began performing the stunts whilst pregnant with her first child - son Desmond, now nine. Since then, the professional dancer and former Cirque du Soleil performer has celebrated each of her pregnancies with a wacky performance.
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
A mum who has hid behind the hair loss condition alopecia for the last 20 years has bravely revealed a secret compulsion to tear out her own hair that has tormented her since she was a child .
Sophie Carr, 23, from Swindon, was just six when her older brother Alex, then 12, abused her during a game of mummies and daddies .
For years Jeorgia Woodd, 30, abused her body, having succumbed to a condition known as 'diabulimia' .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
MEET the real life sleeping beauty - who snoozed for TWO months when a rare sleep disorder took over her life and turned it into a nightmare .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
A woman whose face and body was left scarred for life by angry sores, caused by Lupus, has become a diversity model .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
A former obese woman has told how she lost 19st, but was so terrified of gaining weight that she ended up developing an eating disorder .