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​Woman Wears Corset For 23 Hours A Day To Maintain Tiny 18-Inch Waist

​Woman Wears Corset For 23 Hours A Day To Maintain Tiny 18-Inch Waist

Diana Ringo wears the corset each day and only takes it off if she works out or has to hop in the shower

Jess Hardiman

Jess Hardiman

A former US Navy veteran wears a corset for 23 hours a day in order to maintain her miniscule 18-inch waist.

Diana Ringo, 39, wears the corset each day and only takes it off if she works out or has to hop in the shower - saying she does it because her fat does not distribute 'in a feminine way'.

"When I have my corset on, it makes me feel so sexy," Diana said. "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."

The mum-of-three from San Diego, California, first started wearing corsets when she lost her natural curves after the birth of her four-year-old twin sons. Instead of shedding the 77lbs she put on during pregnancy, she opted to regain her shape by wearing the waist-cinching undergarments.

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Diana said: "I eat everything. There is nothing I can't eat. What I can't do is over eat. I just can't, it's like having a lap band on the outside of your body rather than on your stomach, your tummy will not allow you.

"I can breathe properly in my corset. I just can't take tremendous full breaths while I'm wearing it and nobody lives their lives taking tremendous full breaths."

Diana is a petite 5'2" and weighs between 118-120 lbs. Now a chef, it costs her a whopping £1,400 ($1,940) to retain her unique hourglass figure, and she owns over 45 corsets.

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"Some parents think I am a bad example," she said. "But my job isn't to take care of their children, my job is to take care of mine. Teachers - they just kinda roll their eyes and I roll mine back.

"I'm not worried at all about giving my boys a negative self-image. I think that they are gonna grow up like manly men. They have their father to look up to. I'm just their mom."

But husband Brett said that while he was initially concerned, he can see that wearing the corsets makes his wife happy.

"I was concerned with her health at first when I came back from deployment," he explained. "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'.

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"I don't think she has taken it too far. We did agree that this was the kind of base line. We have an agreement that she is not going to get any smaller.

"The training has increased her self-confidence. They always say happy wife, happy life. So, this makes her happy."

Diana added: "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.

"I always wear my corset even when intimate. I have my husband grab my cords to get a good grip of me.

"This is important to me because it makes me feel good. It makes me feel sexy and I mean if I feel good and I'm happy, I go with that."

Each to their own and all that - but this does look particularly painful.

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Topics: Interesting, Weird