An incredibly bendy woman who can fold herself up so her buttocks are sitting on top of her head has admitted some of her friends cannot bear to watch because “it makes them sick to their stomachs”.

FLEXIBLE Christine Danton, 71, chats about her life as a contortionist, revealing her lithe body can still perform a trick she perfected when she was just seven years old. Sixty-four years on, her ...

She continued: “That’s when the choreographer told me not to bend too much more than the others – especially in backbends.” Anastasia’s first love was dance, rather than contortion – seeming to take ...