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Ukranian model Valeria Lukyanova, who lives her life as a 'human Barbie' has revealed she doesn't consume food or water anymore. Some have said she uses plastic surgery and Photoshop to create her doll-like image, but her impossibly thin waist could actually be down to not eating for weeks. The model, 23, has said she is now converting to 'Breatharianism' - training herself to live off only light and air. 'In recent weeks I have not been hungry at all; I'm hoping it's the final stage before I can subsist on air and light alone,' she has said. The model...

A mother who calls herself the Human Barbie has given her daughter a boob job for her seventh birthday. Well, it beats a boring old jigsaw, I suppose. And when the time came to unwrap the birthday pressies in Human Barbie and Baby Barbie’s house in Cambridgeshire, there was no disappointed little face, no tossed aside bracelet-making kits, no wails of: ‘Mum, what’s a book for?’ ...Apparently it was just what she’d always wanted. Fancy that.

At the African First Ladies Health Summit, which started on Monday in Los Angeles, one woman stood out... Chantal is the second wife of President Paul Biya of Cameroon. She was born to a French father and a Cameroonian beauty pageant winner. She is famous in Cameroon for her hairstyles. Her signature look even has a name: the banane Her luxuriant hair caused a stir when we published a picture of her in our pictures of the day gallery. One blogger wrote "all hail the Fierce Ruling First Lady of Cameroon"Pope Benedict XVI arrives at the presidential palace of Cameroon...

A YOUNG woman wraps her skeletal arms around her stick-thin legs, revealing a rib cage that shows she is close to death. This is just one of a series of shocking images on websites known as “pro-ana” — short for pro-anorexia — or “thinspirations”. They are created by and for a disturbed community of anorexia sufferers who rely on sordid internet information to help them lose weight. There are said to be more than 1,000 such sites in existence. Disturbing images are accompanied by “tips” such as: “If your family starts to notice you haven’t been eating go to a...