15-Inch Waist

Status: Real
image The picture to the right has not been photoshopped (would that it had). That woman's waist really is that thin. She's Cathie Jung, who holds the title in the Guinness Book of World Records for the Smallest Waist on a Living Person:

Cathie Jung's waist is about the same size as a regular jar of mayonnaise. She's been wearing a corset every day for the past 12 years, and she now wears one 24 hours a day. "I probably have around 100 of them," says the corset queen.

The pictures of Cathie remind me of the Stomach-Sucked-In picture I posted earlier this year. (via The Presurfer)

Body Manipulation

Posted on Tue Nov 15, 2005



Comments

she reminds me of barbie, and that's not a good thing!
Posted by Yushi  on  Tue Nov 15, 2005  at  11:51 PM
Youch...that looks so gross. And how badly distorted must her vital organs be from wearing corsets all the time.
Posted by Smerk  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  12:54 AM
heyyy i read that womans story in new zealand womens weekley (it gets boring during lunch breaks)

they showed x rays of her and her heart seemed to be making its way up to her shoulder... i swear


no it aint healthy but if it makes you happy then it cant be that bad
Posted by joeodd  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  01:19 AM
She looks disturbingly like a blow-up doll...
Posted by Nettie  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  03:17 AM
She does look very much like a "fashion doll." Well, her bosom should be more pointy, but other than that, she does. And yet, this is the ideal we see in Disney movies and even grown-up animation, and we hand to our kids as presents.
Posted by cvirtue  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  03:36 AM
Sick! Ugh. Animated females do tend to look weird, but it looks much worse on a real woman. *faints*
Posted by Reynard Muldrake  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  05:08 AM
Late 19th century, this was quite 'en vogue' and known as a 'wasp's taile'. Quite a lot of women looked like this back then. Of course, they soon discovered that they had damaged internal organs, and Darwin struck in having them die in childbirth.

I think this gal looks abhorent. If you do this to yourself, there's a screw loose somewhere.
Posted by LaMa  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  07:24 AM
It's definitely not real. She's just inhaling for the picture. Exhale, and it all comes back. I have a cousin who can do it too.
Posted by booch  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  10:09 AM
Again, Booch has befuddled me. By "not real" do you mean that the women is holding her breath or "sucking in" her stomach muscles? I would categorize that as "real", and "not real" to mean that the image has been altered, either digitally or through photo retouching (admittedly becoming a lost art) I suspect Booch of merely wanting to stir up comments, in which case, the comment succeeded.
Posted by Gearyster  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  10:25 AM
You have to wonder what she looks like in the nuddy, without a corset. I think the tights in this photograph are a mistake, because they make her legs look as if they are made of plastic, and as noted above she looks a bit doll-ish.

According to her website she is married to an orthopaedic surgeon, so presumably there aren't any major health risks to wearing her corset, at least not regarding her ribs and spine. From my experience of orthopaedics two of the biggest spinal risks are sudden compression and excessive and prolonged flexion, i.e. slouching, and so the corset would help her in these two respects. And I suppose the liver is squidgy and can mould itself into shape.

Her website states that she wears a corset all the time except when showering. As a man my immediate thought is of sex; when confronted by anything involving corsets, or indeed anything at all my first thought is of sex. And so presumably Cathie either goes on top, or her partner is very gentle, or she breathes rapidly but shallowly. Or they don't bother. I'm sorry, if you're reading this. I can't help it.
Posted by Ashley Pomeroy  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  11:07 AM
YUCK :sick:
Posted by Craig  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  11:18 AM
I sort-of agree it is a "fake" waist, but not that she is holding her breath/sucking it in for the pic. Without the corset, her waist would not be 15" around. I saw her on a TV show, years ago, and as I recall, they don't measure her waist, they measure the inside of her corset to find out how big it is set for. They mentioned that without the corset, she had a 22" waist. That, in my opinion, in her real measurement. She should hold the record for tightest corset, not smallest waist.

The tiny waist looks ok in the Victorian dresses (she and her husband are enthusiasts and members of some re-enactment society), but looks incredibly freaky in street clothes. Yuck.
Posted by Yvonne  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  12:42 PM
Forgot to add: as I recall, hubby also wears a corset, but only to their re-enactment events, not every day. A man's corset, of course, doesn't make him wasp-waisted; it makes him look like that cartoon guy that is always on the cover of the New Yorker: pigeon chested.
Posted by Yvonne  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  12:44 PM
Didn't William Shatner wear a corset? Because he was too pudgy to be a believable captain?
Posted by Citizen Premier  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  04:29 PM
Ewwwwwww!!!

And it's almost dinnertime, too.
Posted by Big Gary in a state of shock  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  05:30 PM
In Gone With The Wind, Scarlett O'Hara had an 18 inch waist.
Posted by katey  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  05:32 PM
ew! <gag>
Posted by thephrog  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  06:32 PM
What's the big deal? The Guinness world record was 13", and there is documented evidence that 15" was almost common for the ladies of the court in medieval England because of women being more diminutive in those days.
Posted by eriC draveS  on  Wed Nov 16, 2005  at  07:48 PM
the big deal is that if people look werid in anyway that they have inflicted on themselves (corsetry, cosmetic surgery, or just being fat) its ok to make fun of them, cuz its not like they were born like that,
Posted by joeodd  on  Thu Nov 17, 2005  at  12:15 AM
it is not ok to make fun of them. it is ok to be grossed out by them. get your thinking straight, joeodd! this isn't about poking fun, it's about the fact that she doesn't even look normal. she looks hideous. but if that makes her happy, more power to her. her husband obviously doesn't mind.
but, ew!
Posted by thephrog  on  Thu Nov 17, 2005  at  05:03 PM
kay ill remember that next time i see a group of special needs children
Posted by joeodd  on  Thu Nov 17, 2005  at  09:32 PM
It's funny when people get into the realms of the extreme and don't realize how they appear to others.
But this is how they want to look, and it appears pleasing to them.
I actually went to her website & read about her story.
This struck me funny:
"Cathie, as a young girl, spelled her nickname with an "ie" instead of a "y" because the latter letter descended to the next line and got in the way of her writing."
She got rid of the 'y' cause it was in her way! Seems like she's always been a person of extremes..
Posted by Electra  on  Fri Nov 18, 2005  at  08:39 PM
Ew... Eww.. eeeeeewww....

She looks like she might snap in half.

Plus, honestly, the rest of her isn't that great looking.
Posted by Robin Bobcat  on  Sun Nov 20, 2005  at  11:37 AM
i was seriouly begining to wonder if she was a man
Posted by fool  on  Sun Nov 20, 2005  at  11:37 PM
i admit she does look kind of mannish in that photo... its the jawline
Posted by joeodd  on  Mon Nov 21, 2005  at  01:20 AM
Just the other day, I saw "Plan 9 from Outer Space," which features a great cameo by Vampira (who was the inspiration for the later TV character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark), and I noticed that Vampira sported a profile very similar to Cathie Jung's. I don't know what kind of undergarments Vampira was wearing, but they must have been prodigious.
Posted by Big Gary in Gun Barrel City, Texas  on  Mon Nov 28, 2005  at  03:28 PM
:sick: i think there should be some sort of law against this sort of sickness . We shouldnt be praising her by putting her into the guiness book of records anyway i think that its very wrong.
Posted by lauren  on  Thu Dec 08, 2005  at  10:26 AM
I wonder... What DOES she look like on the inside?
Posted by Rachel  on  Tue Jan 10, 2006  at  12:50 AM
I see that I am in the minority, but I admire anyone devoted enough to any cause to be the best. Tight lacing to 15" is every bit an accomplishment as running the 100 Meter in the fastest time, or building the biggest bicepts. The woman's a grandmother, so don't expect a beauty queen to go with the figure.
Posted by Jim  on  Sat Jan 21, 2006  at  02:55 PM
you know, she does remind me of barbie...freaky
Posted by Eva  on  Mon Feb 20, 2006  at  07:17 PM
hah ew thats so gross, i thought it was like a blow up doll, with somebodys head digitaly blended on.To icky that is :shut:
Posted by Teagan  on  Sat Mar 25, 2006  at  12:08 AM
ewwww! that looks like a piece of shit. thats the most gross thing iv ever seen. wats that ladys problem. i think i saw you on tv eeeeeewwwwwwwww!-hailey/renty




Cathie looks like she took a vacume and sucked out all her vital organs. All I have to say about that is why would anyone want to do that to [email protected]
Posted by renty  on  Sun Apr 30, 2006  at  09:13 AM
well, i think that she looks amazing.But the waist is a bit too small and that kind of takes it from amazing to weird.But gra8 dedication 4 wering a corset 4 so many hrs a day.
Posted by Rose  on  Thu Jun 01, 2006  at  06:18 PM
:gulp: wow
Hey i stumbled upon this from a totally different website by following a random link..

anyway i just have to say wow her body does look like a blow up doll and i can only imagine what her x-rays look like..

i want to give the lady props for enduring all that pain to accomplish this... but you think she would have picked something to accomplish that wouldn't potentially kill her !

thats all i got..
Posted by ShawnaB  on  Wed Jun 28, 2006  at  11:01 AM
she reminds me of a picture i saw in a magazine of what a woman would really look like in barbie proportions

ew
Posted by abigail  on  Tue Oct 24, 2006  at  01:16 PM
well i had seen her on a tv game show just a few days ago and she really does have a 15-inch waist. She is not sucking in a holding her breath! So there!!
Posted by Jennifer Korn  on  Sun Dec 17, 2006  at  08:23 AM
I had a barbie who looked exactly like her. My cousin's dog mutilated it...

(That's nice dear, says Ruth, who then steers Kim away for a nice straitjacket fitting.)
Posted by kimmikins  on  Wed Feb 21, 2007  at  12:41 PM
As I see it we could compare her to Barbie. Now if she had the same proportion as Barbie with a 15" waist her bra size would be 22D, if her waist were 18" (close to barbies real proportion) her bra size would be 26F.

Now I have nothing against tight lacing howev er there is a limit to everything. Personaly I think she has gone at least 5" beyound a sane limit. Makes me wonder what her waist would be without ever lacing (26 to 30) would be my guess.

Also how is her health? Does she have back problems? Can she walk a mile in her corset? least of all could she run even a block?
Posted by Maggy  on  Fri Mar 09, 2007  at  11:48 AM
O_O;;;; Make her boobs larger and she'd look like one of the females in One Piece....I still find their bodies weird-looking, what with the enormous round breasts and thin waists and stuff.....

Meh, it's weird....I wonder how small the smallest natural waist is?
Posted by Dookers  on  Sat Mar 31, 2007  at  01:53 PM
Yes it makes her look sick and disformed but i surpose its up to her what she wears and to honist its not hurting any one but her self its her body that is odd shaped so the best thing to do is let her be.!
Posted by katie McDavis  on  Tue Apr 03, 2007  at  05:45 AM
Hot Hot Hot.

Would have LOVED to have seen her 20 years younger! She looks mid 40s+

Grrrrrrrrrrrr


Ruff Ruff

Howwwwwl
Posted by Douglas  on  Tue Jun 19, 2007  at  03:02 PM
Vampira had the smallest natural waist. She was a wonder. That was her without cosetting. I think it was 18 inches. Probably she was the one to beat for the plastic chick above.
If you look at the Ed Wood movie, they managed to get a chick with an amazingly small waist to play her, but Vampira's was even smaller.
Posted by Fin  on  Sat Jun 23, 2007  at  10:51 AM
The "chick" who played Vampira in "Ed Wood" was no other than the versatile actress Lisa Marie, who until a few month's ago, was Director Tim Burton's girlfriend, who accused him of trying to "gaslight" her during palimony proceedings. Lisa Marie is also well known for her role in Burton's "Mars Attacks", as the gum-chewing alien call-girl who infiltrates the White House in an attempt to zap the POTUS, played by Jack Nicholson, who was reported to have had a 28-inch waist during the filming of "The Terror" with Boris Karloff. It was apparently in Jack's contract that he be small-waisted, as opposed to wasted in general, as he was in most of Easy Rider. Peter Fonda had a 27-inch waist during the ER filming, while Dennis Hopper's head grew to an extremely large circumference, due mainly to the psychadelic substances he ingested on the set. And dats da facts, Jacks
Posted by Hairy Houdini  on  Sat Jun 23, 2007  at  01:56 PM
I can't imagine that that would be very good for her vital organs. They are in there pretty tight to begin with.
Posted by Angelina  on  Fri Jun 29, 2007  at  08:12 PM
that is not even attractive i mean if i was a boy i would never go out with her even if like she was a super modal.
Posted by ondrea  on  Thu Aug 23, 2007  at  02:08 PM
Corsets are cool.. nothing gross about wearing one or having a womanly figure..I love mine I doubt I'll get to 15in but even 20 would be nice.. to see a big fat belly is really a nasty view not a corseted waist.. there is no sucking it in if you are in a tight corset.. go read & get a clue stupid!!
Posted by Eva  on  Thu Sep 06, 2007  at  02:18 AM
Where are her lower ribs, her kidneys, her liver and spleen? her lower lungs?
Posted by Jeanne from Jersey  on  Sat Sep 29, 2007  at  04:16 PM
her legs look like she's had her real ones removed and fake cosmetic ones put on...
Posted by emily  on  Mon Oct 01, 2007  at  03:16 AM
She looks completely deformed, I can't imagine anyone finding that attractive. Worst part is, she is a grandma, she should be at the point in her life where she is enjoying life not sofocating inside a tight corsete. I can't even imagine what the skin underneath looks like. Her sit says her waist is naturally 21 iches. ICK!
Posted by Jessica  on  Fri Oct 05, 2007  at  04:57 PM
I noticed alot of people commenting in regards to her health. Ethel Granger's waist was smaller then hers and I believe her death was completely unrelated to tightlacing. The organs of a pregnant woman move around more in that short time then they ever do wearing a corset. If you do it carefully and know your limits, you're not going to hurt yourself.
Posted by piraterie  on  Sun Oct 14, 2007  at  06:08 PM
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