The latest surgery craze: ‘undo-plasty’

Emine Saner: A survey by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons found that 33% of surgeons had done 'much more' repair work in the past five years, blaming the rise in cheap cosmetic surgery holidays

What would Beth Ditto do?

Beth Ditto: No matter how rare plane crashes are, I realised that my odds were getting slimmer with each flight. I knew that if I was to keep flying (and in my job it's difficult not to) I would need to develop some fear-tackling tactics. So here's what I came up with!

The knife consultant

Cosmetic surgery was once just for the weird and famous. Now it is booming. Julie Bindel meets the woman who promotes the scalpel as a cure for unhappiness

Push … then nip and tuck

'Mummy jobs', in which cosmetic surgeons set out to erase all evidence of childbirth from a woman's body, are already big business in the US. Now they are catching on here. Viv Groskop reports on a disturbing trend - and asks three mothers how they really feel about their post-baby bodies

The untold stories

In the debate over late abortion, one voice is rarely heard - that of the women who have actually had one. Karen Dugdale, who herself terminated a pregnancy at 21 weeks, describes what happened to her, and talks to six others who made the same choice.

Anti-natal

Zoe Williams: Pineapples, sex and curries are all supposed to bring on labour, but there is an even more desperate method.

A crying shame

On average, new mothers get less than four hours' sleep a night - half as much as their own mothers did. Where are we going wrong, asks Lucy Cavendish.