Actress and TV host, Kirstie Alley, enjoyed her greatest television success in the 1980s and early 90s but she still hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons in the decades following her career. In the early days, best remembered as Rebecca Howe in the hit series ‘Cheers’, she was almost a pin-up model. Her […]
It‘s been over thirty years since rock legend and voice of an era, Jim Morrison’s life ended in Paris. Fans gather on every anniversary of his passing around his grave in Père Lachaise cemetery, to pay tribute to The Doors’ legend. There is usually a strong security presence in and around the cemetery on these […]
The last thing you’d expect to find as a cause of obesity is dieting; it’s like discovering that abstinence causes alcoholism, exercise makes you fat or marriage makes you happy. But that fact remains that one of the major causes of obesity, both physically and psychologically, is dieting; extreme dieting (which is commonly known as […]
Movie stars are often called upon to transform their physiques in order to play particular parts. Christian Bale famously lost large amounts of weight in order to play the lead in The Machinist; Elle MacPherson gained weight for her role in Sirens; and Rene Zellweger plumped in order to play the chubby protagonist in Bridget […]
Timmi Radicke looks set to spearhead the new wave of eating disorders in the next generation of men as vanity and peer pressure kick in again.
Stretch marks, also known as stria or striae, are small lesions on the surface of the skin which appear when the skin has been stretched.
Zac Efron has left his High School Musical pretty boy image behind him and buffed up for his role as a marine in the Iraq war. Goodbye shaggy locks and boyish charm and hello rugged, manly sex appeal.
Hollywood and dieting are two terms that go hand in hand. But whereas the majority of celebrities are constantly striving to knock off the pounds, cancer-stricken Michael Douglas has been put on a diet to do just the contrary.