Looking just like Dad (or why Elvis's girl must return to slender)

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At a New York charity event it appeared that the Elvis genes were beginning to kick in, with the once-svelte 39-year-old showing that she had piled on the pounds in recent months.

Double take: A bloated Lisa Marie Presley now resembles her legendary father

Lisa Marie: Her usual svelte look

Only last summer Miss Presley - who includes Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage among her four former husbands - appeared trim and fit.

Publicity shots of her singing In The Ghetto in a virtual reality duet with her father showed her looking the image of her mother, the slim and elegant Priscilla, when she was in her 20s.

But Miss Presley, who was pictured this week at a charity to feed the homeless, has a long way to go before she is in danger of emulating her father's gross weight gain before his death at 42 in 1977.

One of his favourite 'snacks' was a hollowed, buttered loaf filled with peanut butter, jam and a pound of fried bacon - a dish intended to feed eight but usually polished off by the King in one sitting.

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