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.
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
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 .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
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An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
A British photographer has captured the beauty of London in a stunning series of landscapes shots .