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.
A proud stag attempts to impress the females by donning an enormous fern headdress in London's Bushy Park .
The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has welcomed a bizarre new addition - a two-headed turtle named Thelma and Louise .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
Recovering from a rare form of breast cancer, Deborah Barnett, 43, of Stoke-on-Trent, thought she'd made it through the worst, but she was betrayed by former colleague Sandra Ramsay, of Mow Cop Road, Mow Cop, Stoke-on-Trent .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
A stunning ice cave in Iceland is illuminated by sunlight as the bright blue ice appears glow inside .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
This daredevil wildebeest tried a walk on the wild side - straight into the snatches of a huge 18 foot crocodile .