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.
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
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A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .
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An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
Primed and ready for action, this collection of striking images from the battlefield could be mistaken for authentic photos taking during World War II .
