Confidence Boost? Mom Of Three Uses A Corset To Shrink Her Waist To 18 Inches

I’m baffled by this.

It’s one thing to want to be healthy. It’s another to get a fake Barbie doll waist. Yet, that’s exactly what this mother of three did.

Meet Diana Ringo. She’s a 39-year-old Navy veteran and mother of three. After she gave birth to her twins, she lost her curves (so she says), so she decided to do something about it. Her answer? Wearing a corset 23 hours a day every single day. She’s managed to shrink her waist to an unfathomable 18 inches.

Instead of losing the 77lbs (five and a half stone) she put on during pregnancy – making her waist 27-29 inches – with a balanced diet and exercise, Diana decided to get her hourglass figure back by wearing waist-pinching corsets.

Diana, who worked as a Navy chef for nine years, told Barcroft TV: ‘When I have my corset on, it makes me feel so sexy. I naturally felt so sexy but it just boosted my self-esteem a lot more, it just makes me feel good.

‘I wasn’t happy with my body before because I was fat. There’s nothing wrong with being fat but my fat does not distribute in a feminine way. It distributes as if I have a male body type and I don’t like that shape.’

Okkkkkkkkkk. I get that, but now her body shape is NON-HUMAN.

Diana, now a chef, has over 45 corsets in her closet, costing $1,955 (£1,400), to help her maintain her 18 inch waist and hourglass frame.

Diana said: ‘When I don’t have the corset on it feels like when you take off your bra. You get a little bit of like relief I guess is the right word, but you want to put it back on because you’re just used to it by now.

‘Right now I weigh between 118-120lbs (eight stone). My dress size is around 2-4 but I have to take in the waist because I really like to show what I have accomplished even though I sometimes get dirty and wtf looks.’

Diana said: ‘My family is torn between it’s okay and some of my family think I’m gonna die today maybe tomorrow.

‘I do value their opinion about what they have to say about corset training or corsets but I ultimately have to live with myself and the decisions I make are to make myself happy.’

Husband Brett said: ‘I was concerned with her health at first when I came back from deployment. That’s when I asked her to go see a doctor.

‘So, she went to get checked out and the doctor said, ‘everything is good.’

It’s great that she’s not about to croak, but nothing about this seems healthy. How do her organs even FIT in there? Holy cow. And 23 hours a day? I can’t keep jeans on for more than five minutes the minute I walk into my house. I can’t even imagine strapping a corset on, feeling a numbing sensation and dismissing it as “normal.”

“Ultimately I will do what I want, I am a grown woman and I pay taxes. Most importantly I do what makes me happy because if I am, then he will be too, especially if I’m feeling sexy he gets rewarded with sex because of how I feel,” she said.

She’s right. She’s an adult. This is her prerogative. I just think it looks bizarre, uncomfortable and unhealthy.

h/t Daily Mail