Thanks to celebrities like Kim Kardashian West, Khloe Kardashian, and Kim Zolciak wearing waist trainers that nip the midsection into cartoonish proportions has become the new Hollywood “it” thing.

For centuries, corsets have been a centrepiece in shaping the silhouette. Corsets, or waist trainers as they're sometimes called, work by applying pressure to your midsection. Traditionally made with ...

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AN 86-year-old woman has the world’s smallest waist, after wearing a corset for 23 hours a day. Although an extremely common fashion accessory of the past, corsets are rarely seen in the modern day, ...

Let's talk about waists, baby. Women might claim the majority of Internet-based body shape discussions, but it's the men who intrigue us. Although the corset was brought into the mainstream by women, ...

A CORSET-obsessed mum has told how she even sleeps in a girdle in her bid to achieve the smallest waist in the world. Sarah Vaeth, 46, currently measures a tiny 15.5in after nine years of training her ...

Long gone are the days when we resorted to healthy eating habits and regular exercise for our pre-summer bodies. These days, countless celebs rely on waist training, and many of their fans are hopping ...

Beyoncé has one. Scarlett Johansson and Marilyn Monroe do, too. According to some, these women possess the quintessential (and covetable) female body shape—the hourglass figure with a large bust, ...

A model has revealed that she shrunk her waist to only 20 inches by wearing a corset up to 23 hours a day for over a decade - and it's even moved some of her organs. Aleira Avendaño, 33, from ...

In the past couple of months, both Kim and Khloé Kardashian Instagrammed pictures of themselves (I am not going to say the word selfie now that there is a TV show called Selfie based on the musical My ...