Anorexia ended ballet dancer's career
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Sarah Wilkinson, a former ballet dancer, used to lie in bed at night thinking she would die as her body began to consume itself after a diet of black coffee and laxatives left her skeletal and malnourished.
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Marion Jones and Paula Radcliffe came up empty-handed when their Olympics ended before their races did. Tragic endings in their final events at the Athens Olympics left the two biggest female stars with no
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NEW YORK  - While extreme thinness may the  most obvious and life-threatening aspect of anorexia, new  research suggests that it is often the psychological symptoms  of eating disorders that take the longest to overcome.
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It is hard to imagine now, but at the peak of her illness Ana Maria Muhai was a skeletal 29 kilos. Her husband left her and her neighbours shunned her when they realised she was HIV positive, leaving
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Somewhere between 6 and 9 months of age, she stopped gaining weight and I started worrying.
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Darcey Bussell gives her farewell performance as principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London.
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Her death severs one of our last remaining links to the Golden Age Of Bollywood.
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HAVANA -- Cuban ballet dancers in white glide across the floor, executing an airy blend of pirouettes and back stretches. Within seconds, spectators are captivated, quickly forgetting what at first they couldn't overlook - most of the dancers weigh more than 200 pounds.
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FOR three years, Diane Prettys husband could only watch as she disintegrated in front of his eyes through the devastating effects of motor neurone disease (MND). In her final months, with her muscles wasting ...
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Torri Edwards is out of the Olympics after losing her appeal against a drug ban.
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A weekend reunion brought hundreds of former dancers back to American Ballet Theater.
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Tears fell at the New York State Theater for Kyra Nicholsâs farewell after 33 years with New York City Ballet, but there were fewer tears than flowers.
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A unique pas de deux: A Soviet ballet star and a medaled ex-marine run a very intense dance school in rural Maine.
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The death this month, at 94, of Alicia Markova, the magical woman who inspired the two greatest geniuses of 20th-century ballet , George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, capped a year of a particularly ...
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Dame Alicia Markova, one of the greatest British ballerinas of the 20th century, a founder of the company now known as the English National Ballet and a former director of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, died ...
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On Friday night Darcey Bussell, the most internationally renowned and locally adored British ballerina since Margot Fonteyn, bade farewell to ballet.
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Dame Alicia was one of the greatest British ballerinas of the 20th century, co-founder of the English National Ballet and a former director of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.