The pressure to be thin has claimed another young model’s life, with British teen covergirl Bethaney Wallace dying in her sleep after a battle with anorexia. Bethaney, 19, died of suspected heart failure on April 18 after her weight plummeted to just 38kg. The beautiful teen from Newmarket, Suffolk, was 12 when she started modelling […]

This remarkable Aussie granny has opened up her home and her heart to hundreds of foster children. Melbourne grandmother Pam Lawrence laughs off the suggestion that she’s Australia’s answer to Mother Teresa. But there are many to whom she is just that. Over the past 24 years, the 61-year-old former hairdresser has taken 237 children […]

Visitation with his mother is very much to her convenience, she drives a nice car and lives in a wealthy neighbourhood yet she only pays $100 a month in child support! My husband refuses to remodify the payments because he doesn’t want to cause waves. I can kind of see his point of view, however, […]

The world’s first pregnant man Thomas Beatie has separated from his wife of nine years. The 38-year-old father of three revealed that he and wife Nancy Roberts had split during the a taping of the TV show The Doctors. “Like all marriages, we have our ups and downs, and we’re going through a rough patch […]

Just when you thought Toddlers and Tiaras couldn’t get any more controversial, we meet this mum who says her toddler loves lingerie and is a fan of Victoria’s Secret. In one of the latest episodes of the show, which airs on TLC in the US, Oklahoma mother-of-four Tricia explains that she has no problem posing […]

The Settinellis prove the boy band isn’t just for teenagers. When One Direction arrived on Aussie shores last week, teenage girls around the country went into meltdown, but they weren’t the only ones. For Noula and Nunzio Settinelli, both 41, “1D” mania is a way of life! “I think they could be as big as […]

Go on, admit it, you have fantasised about bedding a celebrity. While many of us have thought about it, Nikki McWatters has done it — and more than once. Today, as she lives her life in the Queensland suburbs with her husband, a primary school teacher, and five children, she is being tracked down by […]

The world’s fattest man who weighs in at 369.09 kilos (812 pounds) has said winning the title has finally made him determined to lose weight. Keith Martin, 42, from London says that throughout his life he has been able to give up other addictions including smoking and alcohol, but hasn’t been able to give up […]

In gold rush days, Taradale Primary had 200 students. Now there are just two. Whether they’re playing tag in one of the playgrounds, kicking a ball around the oval or raising a hand to answer a question in class, seven-year-old Mollie McCarthy and eight-year-old Tim Grant never have to compete too hard for space or […]

A bald Barbie doll will be made by toy company Mattel after a Facebook campaign received more than 150,000 likes in just three months. The group called “Beautiful and Bald Barbie! Let’s see if we can get it made” was created by two mothers; Jane Bingham, who lost her hair due to chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin’s […]