SCHAPELLE Corby is sporting a new pixie-look haircut in Kerobokan prison. Family members said the constant heat and humidity and lack of a shower to properly wash her long hair for more than a year finally persuaded her to cut her lovely, brown hair off.

``To suggest it's a butch look is rubbish, it's simply a practical move for the Balinese climate, nothing more nothing less,'' said a family member, who would not be named as Schapelle has asked her family for no more media coverage .

``The hair was disposed of in the normal way, there was no burying it or ritual words, that's all crap and any comments about selling it on e-bay is also pure fantasy, it might have been mentioned as joke, but no more than that.

In February, Ros and Mercedes took Mercedes' little dog, Stanley into the prison to cheer up Schapelle who was down at the time. The cute dog was an instant hit and they were loathe to take it back straight away, so it stayed in the prison for a month or so and then Mercedes took it home and it was yapping at her feet when I spoke to Mercedes this week.

Schapelle is fastidious about cleanliness and her looks and has been that way since she was a small child. On one of my visits, she came out into the visitors' area wearing a baseball cap and apologised to me about how she looked because she hadn't washed her hair and she has spoken to me about how much she missed having a shower. She is also particular about what she eats and she eats a largely vegetarian diet of fruit and vegetables bought from a western supermarket and Bali Deli. I have not seen her eat any junk food, but last year after she was sick during her trial, she asked Mercedes to buy a load of KFC for her numerous cellmates as a thank-you for them for their help and sympathy during her illness.

Schapelle did not eat any KFC at the time and does not like fast food like that. She is a regular exerciser in the jail and she has made some `weights' from empty plastic water bottles. On one of my early visits, I asked her if one of her cellmates, Clara, a Mexican prisoner who plays guitar, was her friend.

``I don't make friends in a place like this,'' was her rapid reply.

``She has no relationships or special friendships with anyone in the prison, she speaks to people politely and the crazy story about her being pregnant came out in the Balinese press in late April last year, and tests carried out immediately killed that bullshit rumour and it really makes all of us mad that it has surfaced again,'' said the family member.

``All Schapelle wants is to be left alone and given some space, but when other prisoners have cameras snuck into Kerobokan, it makes it hard.

``From early on in this nightmare there have been a procession of people just exploiting Schapelle and her situation, so it's no surprise there is more, but we just want it to stop.''

Dutch national Michelle Jolanda who served seven months in Kerobokan for drug offences and has recently been released and deported to Singapore, took this photo of Schapelle and her friend Catherine Benalla behind Schapelle's cell. Schapelle had no knowledge it was being taken and did not give permission for the photo.

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