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.
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
LOCATIONS bursting with vibrant greens and chestnut browns, these photographs capture the peaceful English countryside in all its glory .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
SNOWBOARDING in your £2,000 wedding dress sounds like a nightmare for most brides .
A mischievous fox cub demonstrates his playful side by biting his sibling’s tail .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .