Oh my god!

Body: 

I am just watching Oprah and have just seen this woman who holds the record for the smallest waist - 15 inches! She wears a corset 24 hours a day and only takes it off to shower. The bottom half of her body swells out where all of her insides must be - well, you can imagine where I am going with this!!!!!!!

Yikes!

Here's some pictures of her:-

http://www.funnyphotos.net.au/thin-waist/

Here's a clip of her on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrx3jgqJy1E

EEPS!!

They said she had children too! I can't imagine what that would feel like. All my stuff would be outside. I wonder if hers is??? Yuck!!!!!!!

The interview on YouTube they asked her exactly that question - how on earth did you have a pregnancy like that. She had her children long before she started corseting - but yes, there is no doubt my stuff would be outside!!

Her husband is an orthopaedic surgeon.

Hi All

I saw these pics some time ago and did some further googling on the corsetry side of things. As it turns out, everything is squashed upwards and there is considerable rearrangement and alteration in shape of the the organs over a period of years. It is painless if done gradually enough, but there are risks (like being mistaken for a giant wasp and attacked with a giant aerosol of insecticide!) of organ damage.

None of the sites I visited mentioned pelvic organs at all, which suggests to me that there are either considerable problems that these women are not talking about, or that they have pretty strange ideas of beauty and choose to ignore the POP problems as being insignificant. I think it is called masochism and is a very specialist area of sexual practice.

This waist training *must* affect the fascial supports inside the body as organs are actually repositioned during the process. I have a feeling that these women would have more problems than pelvic organs prolapsing when they stopped corseting.

However, it does demonstrate to me how inappropriate pressures within the torso can actually change the shape of tissue, and move tissue from one part to another of the body, even thinning or thickening particular tissues in order to move somewhere else. It does explain how a perineum can get eroded by a cystocele or rectocele, or cervix pressing against it, and how important it is to change the direction in which gravity will direct the organs, from the soft pelvic floor to the hard pubic bone.

It would seem that bone is the only thing that stops corsets working 'better', borne out by the fact that some women have the bottom rib removed surgically in order to make the new waist curve more gradual, which prevents sharp bends in the intestines in that narrow section. If you believe everything you read on the Internet, this is apparently what this crazy woman had done. This is why it is handy to have an orthopaedic surgeon as a husband if you are into this kinky stuff! Can't say I am. It would make bellydancing very difficult, among other things.

Once again, what a strange species we are. I wonder what aliens would make of us?

Cheers

Louise