Nadine Coyle last night launched a successful bid for 'most painfully skinny' member of Girls Aloud, a title previously held by Cheryl Cole.

The singer looked incredibly slender as she returned home from the band's show at London's Wembley Arena with her tanned, spindly legs poking out from a pair of denim hot pants that hugged her non-existent rear.

Nadine's dwindling frame has hit the headlines before, prompting the Irish star to hit back at rumours she suffers from an eating disorder.

She said last year: "You don't remain the same weight throughout the year. My weight fluctuates by half a stone. I'm a (British) size 6-8. I don't like being too skinny. I was really skinny and underdeveloped growing up, and at school other kids would say, 'Oh you're anorexic.'

"I just don't want the wrong impression to be given to girls that I have an eating disorder because I really don't."

Eating disorder or no eating disorder, its a wonder Nadine can manage Girls Alouds' energetic dance routines on those puny pins.

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