What extreme corsetry does to the human body
02.06.2012
12:48 pm

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Romanian “model” Ioana Spangenberg, whose waist measures a shocking 20 inches on her 5ft 6 frame, swears she pigs out on fatty foods daily. Now I’m no doctor here, but this doesn’t look natural at all. I wonder if she wore a corset for years and forced her body to become a “human hourglass”? I don’t know, but it’s shocking to say the least.

Below, an image of how your organs are pushed down after years of extremely tight corset use.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
X-ray images of corsets (1908)
 

 
(via Daily Mail)

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X-ray images of corsets (1908)

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Oddly beautiful, but still wince-making, x-ray images of the nasty health consequences of the absurd things Victorian-era women put themselves through to attract MEN… From Doctor O’Followell’s Le Corset written in 1908.

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See more images after the jump…

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