To achieve the worlds smallest waist, a woman wears a corset 24 hours a day to achieve 15-inch record

A woman hopes to match the record of the world’s smallest waist – by wearing a corset for up to 24 hours a day to shrink her middle to 15 inches.Sarah Belle, 50, from Portland, Oregon, first discovered corsets in 2012 while searching for a solution to years of hunching over art projects and creative work.The corset maker said she initially wanted help correcting her posture, but soon became captivated by the dramatic silhouette corsets could create.More than a decade later, Sarah mostly wears corsets for whole days, sleeps in them regularly and even goes for runs while laced up in a bid to maintain her waist-training progress.She has shrunk from a 27-inch waist to a 23-inch waist – but hopes to shrink to late Guinness World Record holder Cathie Jung’s size – of 15 inches.Cathie previously held the record for the smallest tight-laced waist on a living person before she passed away on August 19, 2025.The smallest waist ever recorded on a person with normal stature belonged to Ethel Granger, who reduced from a natural 22 in to 13 in between 1929 and 1939.Sarah estimates her natural waist was around 27 inches when she began and is now approximately 23 inches when fully relaxed.Her obsession is self-funded, with Sarah making her own corsets and selling them to others.Sarah said: “I was slouching pretty badly and I was looking for some kind of posture device when I came across a steel corset.”“This was before corsets were everywhere.

You weren’t seeing adverts for them, and it was completely new to me.”“I ordered one and fell in love with it.It helped me stop hunching over my work, but I was also fascinated by how dramatically it could cinch the waist.”Sarah became obsessed with corsetry and the world of tight-lacing when she tried them to help with her posture.

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