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WEST HILLS (CBSLA.com) — Many women are lacing up corsets in order to lose weight and get a more shapely figure. Karilyn Gonzales, of Whittier, told CBS2's Lisa Sigell that she's a believer in what ...

Michele Kobke is a 24-year-old Berlin woman on a bizarre mission to achieve the world's smallest waist at 14 inches in a corset, which would match her American idol Cathie Jung. Currently, her waist ...

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For more than 50 years, American women have cast offconstrictive undergarments, which feminists have long criticized as symbols of repression. But for one Seattle resident, embracing the corset in the ...

A WOMAN who started wearing corsets under her school uniform has spent £1,200 and has reduced her waist to a tiny 18 inches. Raquel Skellington first started wearing the tight corsets at just 13 years ...

My Beauty Obsession showcases the extreme ways in which people strive to be beautiful. From a mother who has used a corset to achieve her 18-inch waist to a woman who underwent numerous surgeries to ...