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.
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 .
Ever wished you could live in a house just like Barbie's? Canadian sculptor Heather Benning has created the life-size dollhouse of her dreams out a derelict building .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
The dog having been pulled from the car - A police officer smashed a window in the blue Chrysler car to free the dog which was in visible distress .
SEA LIFE and greenery in one shot show nature at its very best .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .