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 ...

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 ...

"Sometimes they come in a fitting for a fashion designer and they put a corset on me and I'm like, ‘Oh, you can go tight,'" she told the publication. "I think if you wear corsetry for long enough, ...

An Instagrammer has documented her tortuous, years-long struggle to get a “perfect” hourglass figure using “waist-trainer” corsets — and now has a tiny 16-inch waist. On her account @curvaceous_sammm ...

It also reminded us of a few of our favorite red carpet corset moments Hedy Phillips is the Senior Style News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This star is cinching the snappy comeback. Nicole Coughlan wears many a waist-whittling look as Penelope Featherington during Season 3 of Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” and on Tuesday, she opened up to ...