Girl strips naked in shopping centre 'after boyfriend refuses to buy her iPhone 6s

 BY KARA O'NEILL

 People have been known to go to extreme lengths to get their hands on the latest Apple product - but this could be a little bit too far.

 Angry girlfriend strips completely naked in public because boyfriend won't buy her an iPhone

  People are usually desperate to get their hands on the latest Apple product. But it could be argued that this woman has gone to extreme lengths in an attempt to secure herself an iPhone 6s . After reportedly failing to persuade her boyfriend to buy her the latest gadget, the woman, who was caught on camera in a shopping centre in China, decided she had only one option. Read more: Woman sends robot to queue for iPhone 6s so she doesn't have to YouTubeGirl strips naked after her boyfriend refuses to buy her the iPhone 6sAngry: The girl took off all her clothes after her boyfriend 'refused to buy her the latest gadget' And that option was to strip completely naked in front of hundreds of other shoppers. In the clip, the woman can be seen exchanging words with her partner before tearing her clothes off and throwing them onto the floor. 

Unashamed: The girl tears off her clothes after the argument

 Her unimpressed boyfriend walks away, but she soon follows, pushing him several times. It is not clear how the argument ended - or whether the woman ever ended up getting her hands on the iPhone 6s. The clip was uploaded to YouTube on September 20 and has clocked up more than 1.2 million views .

Psychologist blinds woman with drain cleaner - because she asked for it.

 BY TOM MIDLANE

Jewel Shuping has Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), a condition in which able-bodied people believe they are meant to be disabled, and resorted to desperate methods.

 For most people becoming blind would be a living nightmare - but for Jewel Shuping it was the fulfilment of a lifelong dream. Jewel has Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), a condition in which able-bodied people believe they are meant to be disabled. Her need to lose her sight was so strong that in 2006 she decided to blind herself - by having a sympathetic psychologist pour DRAIN CLEANER into her eyes. According to Jewel, her fascination with blindness began early in childhood. She said: "When I was young my mother would find me walking in the halls at night, when I was three or four years old. "By the time I was six I remember that thinking about being blind made me feel comfortable."

Jewel: using a white stick in a park in Raleigh, North Carolina

As a child she would spend hours staring at the sun, watching sunspots and solar storms, after her mother told her it would damage her eyes. In her teens she started wearing thick black sunglasses, getting her first white cane aged 18 and becoming fully fluent in braille by the age of 20. Jewel said: "I was 'blind-simming', which is pretending to be blind, but the idea kept coming up in my head and by the time I was 21 it was a non-stop alarm that was going off." Determined to make her dream a reality, Jewel found a psychologist willing to help her become blind - an act which she compares to a deaf person wanting to get a cochlear implant. The psychologist put in numbing eyedrops - acquired by Jewel during a special visit to Canada - and then a couple of drops of drain cleaner in each eye. Jewel said: "It hurt, let me tell you. My eyes were screaming and I had some drain cleaner going down my cheek burning my skin. "But all I could think was 'I am going blind, it is going to be okay."

Rare: Condition has led to Jewel hurting herself

 Despite the hospital's attempts to save her vision - against her wishes - they were permanently damaged, although it took around half a year for the damage to take affect. Jewel, 30, from North Carolina, said: "When I woke up the following day I was joyful, until I turned on to my back and opened my eyes - I was so enraged when I saw the TV screen." But over around six months the sight in both her eyes slowly went away. Her left eye suffered a 'corneal meltdown' - collapsing in on itself and requiring the eye to be removed - while her right eye had glaucoma and cataracts, as well as a webbing of scars. Jewel originally told her family it had been an accident, but they eventually found out the truth - causing both her mother and sister to cut contact. However, she has been supported by her former fiancé Mike, 50, who is registered legally blind - although in his case due to naturally occurring early-onset macular degeneration.

Jewel Shuping aged one

 Jewel, who is studying for a degree in education, now says she has no regrets and that she dreams of helping other blind people live an independent life. She said: "The only thing I would want to see again is my dad's face, although sadly that's not possible as he's no longer with us. "I really feel this is the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind from birth. "When there's nobody around you who feels the same way, you start to think that you're crazy. But I don't think I'm crazy, I just have a disorder." Jewel is now sharing her story to help raise public awareness of BIID and to encourage people with the condition to seek professional help. She said: "Don’t go blind the way I did. I know there is a need but perhaps someday there will be treatment for it. "People with BIID get trains to run over their legs, freeze dry their legs, or fall off cliffs to try to paralyse themselves. "It’s very very dangerous. And they need professional help." Dr Michael First, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University in New York, who coined the term BIID, said: "Any major disability can be a focus of BIID, from amputation to paraplegia and blindness. "These people are aware that this feeling of theirs is unusual - they know it is coming from within them. They can’t explain it. "But because of this level of awareness we don’t consider this to be something that we would consider evidence of psychosis. "In the world of psychiatry cures are rare, very often it’s about asking how you make someone’s life fulfilling despite their condition. "Now the problem of course if you have a particular individual who wanted amputation or who wants to be blind - how do you know once you have done it that they are going to be satisfied?"

Agony: Jewel Shuping blinded herself with drain cleaner

And while Jewel is happier than ever living as a blind woman, she says she can see why people who were born with a disability or who acquired one involuntarily might find it hard to comprehend her actions. She said: "I do understand why some people would be angry about a person giving themselves a disability. "They think it's a ploy to get social security, or a waste of advocacy that would be better focused on people with an involuntary disability. "But I feel that the way I became disabled doesn’t really matter. "If someone were to say that its fundamentally selfish to blind myself, I would say that it’s selfish to refuse treatment to somebody with a disorder. "This is not a choice, it’s a need based on a disorder of the brain."

WONDER:Girls grow a PENIS and then turn into BOYS when they hit puberty in beautiful Caribbean village

 BY SIOBHAN MCFADYEN

 There are three sexes in Salinas where being a pseudohermaphrodite is so common it's accepted alongside male and female.

 Countdown To Life presenter Dr Michael Mosley visits Salinas to meet the girls who morph into boys 

On the face of it, the small village of Salinas in the Barahona Province of the southwestern part of the Dominican Republic, is like many other Caribbean hideaways. The natives are friendly, there's sandy beaches and the sun beats down often - but there is one peculiarity that sets it apart from the rest of the world. At puberty one in 90 children born there make a natural transformation from girl to boy. Referred to as the ‘guevedoces’ which literally translates as ‘penis at 12’ - these children are known in medical terms as 'pseudohermaphrodite' - and feature in a new BBC 2 series called Countdown to Life - the Extraordinary Making of You.

 Happy: Johnny was born a female but became a man during puberty when his testosterone began to flow

 “I remember I used to wear a little red dress,” said Johnny who at 24 was once known as Felecitia and did not have a penis. “I was born at home instead of in a hospital. "They didn’t know what sex I was. “I went to school and I used to wear my skirt. I never liked to dress as a girl. "When they bought me girls toys I never bothered playing with them. All I wanted to do was play with the boys.” The guevedoces were uncovered by Cornell University endocrinologist Dr Julianne Imperato in the 1970s who travelled to the region to learn more about rumours that girls were morphing into boys. And in the four decades since there have been studies, more has been learned about the perfectly natural condition.

Accepted: the Guevedoces in the Dominican Republic are formed from a rare genetic disorder 

Believed to have transpired through a rare genetic disorder, the condition is caused by a missing enzyme that prevents the production the male sex hormone - dihydro-testosterone - in the womb - and creates what looks like a baby girl on birth. It is not until puberty, when testosterone flows, their voices break and they grow a male sexual reproductive organ that they become recognised as male. BBC presenter Dr Michael Mosley said: “I hated going through puberty; voice cracking, swinging moods, older brother laughing at me. But compared to Johnny, I had it easy. “Guevedoces are also sometimes called “machihembras” meaning “first a woman, then a man.” "When they’re born they look like girls with no testes and what appears to be a vagina. "It is only when they near puberty that the penis grows and testicles descend. “When Dr Imperato investigated the Guavadoces she discovered the reason they don’t have male genitalia at birth is because they are deficient in an enzyme called 5-α-reductase, which normally converts testosterone into dihydro-testosterone. “By a quirk of chance Dr Imperato’s research was picked up by the American pharmaceutical giant, Merck. "They used her discovery to create a drug called finasteride, which blocks the action of 5-α-reductase. “It is now widely used to treat benign enlargement of the prostate and male pattern baldness. For which, I’m sure, many men are truly grateful.” Dr Michael Mosley presents “Countdown to Life – the extraordinary making of you “ on Monday 21st September, BBC2, 9pm.

Girl with life-threatening skin condition bullied to brink of suicide

 A 22-YEAR-OLD, whose body is red-raw from a severe skin condition, was so badly trolled by cyber bullies that she considered taking her own life.

 By Laura Mitchell

BRAVE: Mui Thomas suffers from a rare skin condition called harlequin itchyosis

 Mui Thomas suffers from harlequin itchyosis, meaning she sheds the same amount of skin overnight that most people do in a fortnight. This leaves the brave young woman in agonising pain as her body is raw and prone to infection. Abandoned at birth and taken to a hospital, her now parents Rog, 52, and Tina, 47, started to care for her when she was little over a year old. But doctors warned that the prognosis for her condition was bleak, and she was unlikely to survive for much longer. Rog said: "We had the constant threat that Mui might die hanging over our heads for years. Slowly, she rallied, becoming more robust and suffering with fewer fevers and infections. "But then, when she was a teenager, she was tormented to the point where she contemplated suicide. "After everything she'd been through, it was almost anonymous cyber bullies that killed her."

 She was adopted by Rog and Tina whens eh was three years old

 Rog, from Cardiff, Wales, and Tina, from Frankfurt, Germany, met on a filmset in Hong Kong and were married within five months. After deciding to become weekend foster carers they met Mui – and the couple immediately fell in love. "We didn't know anything about Mui's case before we met her. All we knew was that she looked different," said Tina. "But we fell in love with her. There was no way we could have walked away and left her." “The nasty comments cut me to the bone” Mui Thomas At first, Mui lived in hospital, staying with Rog and Tina at weekends. When she was placed in a government institution that Rog labelled as "completely unsuitable" for her healthcare needs, the couple had a difficult choice to make.

 "We could either go to Australia as planned and start our new lives, or we could give Mui a chance," said Rog. "Doctors had warned us she would die soon. A lot of people said we should walk away, but we couldn't. We decided to become her parents." At three years old, Mui was formally adopted by the couple. Her life was far from easy and she was constantly bombarded with stares, comments and, on occasion, screams and points from strangers. 

 SORE: At 22-years-old, Mui is the fourth oldest person in the world with her condition

 But it was when she reached high-school that the bullying became out of control. She was met with a barrage of vile insults from anonymous cyber bullies. And worn down by their relentless abuse, Mui was driven to the brink of suicide. Desperate to live as if she did not have a skin condition, she began to avoid treatment. "I've blocked most of it out. It was an incredibly difficult time," said Mui. "The comments cut me to the bone. Ultimately, I wanted to commit suicide." "Because I had no idea who was doing it and my tormentors were hiding behind a screen, I felt like I couldn't trust anyone. To an extent, not even my own parents," she added.

 Eventually after ten harrowing months, the tormentors were revealed to be classmates of Mui's. "One of the worst things was that Mui was getting this abuse delivered straight to her home, where she was supposed to feel safe," said Tina. "Because they can't see the face to face reaction of the person they're bullying, they have no idea how much hurt they're causing. "If our story can stop just one person from sending that nasty message or Tweet, then we will have done some good," she added. Last month, the family delivered a talk about their experiences in a bid to raise awareness of the devastating impact the bullying can have. Speaking on stage alongside her parents, Mui said: "When I was a child, I once said: 'Mummy, if there's one thing I want for Christmas, it's to have ordinary skin. "All my life, I've wanted to be seen and treated as someone without my skin condition but as you can see I look a little bit different to most of you. "When people see me for the first time, they're not sure of how to react because I don't fit into the norm. When people shout, scream or run away, I struggle with it. "If someone asks me how I want people to react, I say I'd be happy with a simple hello. A smile would be nice too. But unfortunately, when people are in shock, that doesn't always work out. "At least I have the love and support of my parents, and not everyone gets that."

 STRONG: The brave rugby referee has written a book about her experiences

 One of the most challenging issues of harlequin itchyosis is that the skin does not have a barrier against germs, so Mui and other sufferers like her are left open to infection. On top of this, her body has no temperature control and she cannot sweat, meaning dehydration is a prominent risk for her. The oldest survivor of the debilitating condition is 31 years of age. At 22, Mui is the forth oldest person in the world with harlequin itchyosis. To try and soothe the symptoms of her disorder, she must take daily two hour baths in an attempt to scrub off layers of dead skin and apply ointment routinely throughout the day. But now Mui, who works as a rugby referee, has risen above the bullies and is thankful for the positive experiences her visible difference has brought her. "I think that having a disorder has led to some pretty cool encounters. Who can say that they've met supermodel Kate Moss in her hotel suite, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair? I can," she said. "Who can say that they've been flown across the world to California on an all-expenses paid trip to Disneyland? I can. "So for all the bad encounters that I've experienced, there is always something positive." Aside from the motivational talks the family have been delivering in schools, they have written a book charting their life story called The Girl Behind The Face. They have set up a website as well as Facebook and Twitter accounts, all also titled The Girl Behind The Face.