A university graduate who was obsessed with achieving a thigh gap has told how she shrunk to just 6st after developing anorexia athletica. At her worst, Kirsty Bonnick, 22, was so desperate to lose weight that she consumed just 500 calories a day. Recovered Kirsty from Newbury, Berkshire, would obsessively exercise up to three hours a day and within a year had dropped from 10st 10lbs to 6st. Her obsession with size was worsened by the growing thigh gap trend, a look popularised on Instagram by users including ‘Made in Chelsea’ star Millie Mackintosh.
OFFERING a glimpse into the past, a mash-up of old and new photographs show how the world’s biggest cities have changed .
RECORD BREAKING GRAN'S COLLECTION OF NEARLY 800 SHEEP HOTSPOT MEDIA – WITH PICS 0121 551 1004 By Katie Thompson A record-breaking baa-rmy gran with a love for sheep has amassed a collection of nearly 800 woolly wonders .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
AN expectant mum suffered crippling contractions lasting a gruelling two months, due to complications from a rare condition .
This is the crazy art project that is going ballistic - placing a huge squishy 15ft red ball into tight spaces .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model .
Heart pounding, Rebecca Cain jumped as a car door slammed on the street outside .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .