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.
Meet the dog-loving woman who spends £20k a year looking after her 30 pet PUGS .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
A family who were refused the location of their missing cat under the Data Protection Act have been reunited with their moggie after the keepers handed him back .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
GLIDING through the water, these delightful frogs show off their vibrant colours as they practice their FROG crawl .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
A dog whose forehead skin was so heavy that he was going blind has finally seen his owner again after undergoing a £1K FACELIFT .
FULLY equipped with a kitchen and lounge, it's hard to believe this modern holiday let is actually a BUS .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .
PILES of trash provide a living for thousands in Nairobi, Kenya .
T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .