15-Inch Waist

she reminds me of barbie, and that's not a good thing!

Youch...that looks so gross. And how badly distorted must her vital organs be from wearing corsets all the time.

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

She looks disturbingly like a blow-up doll...

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.

Sick! Ugh. Animated females do tend to look weird, but it looks much worse on a real woman. *faints*

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.

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.

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.

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.

YUCK :sick:

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.

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.

Didn't William Shatner wear a corset? Because he was too pudgy to be a believable captain?

Ewwwwwww!!!

And it's almost dinnertime, too.

In Gone With The Wind, Scarlett O'Hara had an 18 inch waist.

ew! <gag>

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.

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,

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!

kay ill remember that next time i see a group of special needs children

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..

Ew... Eww.. eeeeeewww....

She looks like she might snap in half.

Plus, honestly, the rest of her isn't that great looking.

i was seriouly begining to wonder if she was a man

i admit she does look kind of mannish in that photo... its the jawline

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.

: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.

I wonder... What DOES she look like on the inside?

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.

you know, she does remind me of barbie...freaky

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:

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]

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.

: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..

she reminds me of a picture i saw in a magazine of what a woman would really look like in barbie proportions

ew

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!!

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.)

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?

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?

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.!

Hot Hot Hot.

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

Grrrrrrrrrrrr


Ruff Ruff

Howwwwwl

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.

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

I can't imagine that that would be very good for her vital organs. They are in there pretty tight to begin with.

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.

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!!

Where are her lower ribs, her kidneys, her liver and spleen? her lower lungs?

her legs look like she's had her real ones removed and fake cosmetic ones put on...

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!

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.