Heidi Klum feels likes a "Buddha". The pregnant supermodel - who raises three children with musician husband Seal - loves the way her body has changed, and has likened her baby bump to the rotund religious figure.

She said: "You get used to all the changes of your body. It's not like I'm going, 'Oh my God!' I'm used to that part of it. You feel like a Buddha!"

After being photographed fighting Tailban forces in his underwear, a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan has become a media spectacle.

Army Spc. Zachary Boyd, 19, was sleeping in his quarters at Firebase Restrepo in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province when the Taliban attacked. He responded quickly, taking up a defensive position wearing only his helmet, a protective vest, a T-shirt and pink "I Love NY" boxers, the UPI reported.

Citygoers in Berlin were greeted with a surprising sight: an image of German Chancellor Angela Merkel wearing nothing but bright purple undergarments.

The 1,000 square-foot image of the world leader is part of a nationwide advertising campaign for an underwear company hoping to cash-in on the success of another campaign, the "cash-for-clunkers" special for old cars.

Lady Gaga was almost arrested during a trip to Russia - because she was wearing leather. The "Poker Face'"singer was approached by officers when she visited St. Basil's Cathedral, in Moscow, over her choice of outfit.

She wrote on her Twitter page at the weekend: "They tried to arrest me in Russia, for leather at St. Basil's. But all is calm in the red square, as I leave the east Parisbound. [sic]"

Tori Spelling's husband shaved her pubic hair while she was pregnant.

The '90210' actress was forced to ask her spouse Dean McDermott to trim her "lower region" when her stomach grew too big for her to do it herself.

She explained: "I wasn't prepared for losing sight of my lower region. I'd say, 'Dean, how's it looking down there? Do I need to shave?' But of course I couldn't shave. So Dean had to do it."