Penelope Tree was the ultimate Swinging Sixties ‘It-girl’; her style idiosyncratic, her hallmark look a kind of kooky luminosity that defied convention.
Such was her fame that, when asked to describe her in three words, John Lennon said she was ‘Hot, Hot, Hot! Smart, Smart Smart!’
The innocent daughter of wealthy well-connected parents, she was 18 when she became besotted by the photographer David Bailey, whose charisma was edged with danger. The attraction was instant and mutual. ‘There was an
Calorie counts listed alongside items on restaurant menus can trigger a relapse in some eating disorder patients, researchers have found.
Since April last year, new laws
Greta Gerwig’s hotly-anticipated Barbie movie has finally hit the big screen – and is set to supercharge the cinema industry left decimated by Covid.
‘Barbie’ – which is competing with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer for box office success – stars Australian actress Margot Robbie as the titular character and Ryan Gosling as her boyfriend Ken.
Robbie pays tribute to the original doll created by US inventor Ruth Handler, who saw a gap in the market after noticing not many children’s dolls
A woman who battled eating disorders in private for nine years has revealed how she was too scared to get help from the NHS because of long wait times.
Emma Dransfield, 29, from Leeds, first started struggling with disordered eating in 2012 when she started university.
The graphic designer gained three stone in less than a year following a series of binge-eating episodes.
As she desperately tried to regain control, Emma sadly then developed bulimia and would make herself sick
Clara Brown says she won’t have any ice cream, thank you very much. ‘I mustn’t – it’s not healthy and I don’t want to get fat,’ she explains.
Nothing too remarkable about this – for dieters, avoiding pudding is an easy win.
Except that Clara is just seven and whippet-slim. And whereas most girls her age would happily tuck in without a care, she is racked with worry about what it might do to her body.
Her despairing mother Charlotte,
