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.
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
Is your cat bored? Do his usual playthings simply not do it for him anymore? Not to worry - there's an app for that .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .