Article: Thinking herself thinner... and thinner; CONTRAST: A skeletal Courtney Love in Los Angeles recently and, inset, with a fuller figure back in 2001.

Byline: Caroline Graham

IT IS probably not the sort of VIP endorsement TV hypnotist Paul McKenna was looking for.

Singer Courtney Love, whose shockingly skinny new look has alarmed celebrity-watchers, has credited the British weight-loss guru with keeping her so thin.

She consulted him after using conventional dieting methods to shed more than three stone, which she had piled on after quitting drugs.

But even her close friends are concerned that her latest weight loss is far too dramatic.

One said: 'She is skeletal now. Her weight would always yo-yo depending on whether she was doing drugs or not but then she cleaned up her act in rehab and replaced drugs ...

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