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.
A first-time mum has told how she was allergic to her unborn baby after she developed an angry red rash all over her body .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
ONCE A doctor’s surgery, family home and office, an array of medical equipment is scattered throughout this abandoned home .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
SHOVELLING food into his mouth, this hungry gorilla enjoys a peaceful moment at dinner time .
Pouncing down on top of his twin brother, these two snow leopard cubs practice their kung-fu moves .
WHETHER FLOATING through space or diving underwater, a lucky baby boy enjoys once in a life time experiences - in his DREAMS .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
A DARING duo take their chances and scale this spectacular 82ft frozen waterfall before it collapses .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .