The woman with a 16-inch waist

Kelly, a fetish model, has shrunk her waist to a minuscule 16 inches using a steel boned tight-laced corset. 

The 27-year-old, from New York, started 'waist training' seven years ago after being inspired by the extreme shapes of voluptuous Jessica Rabbit and Marvel super-heroine 'Storm'. 

She said: 'The corset can be restrictive when going up the stairs and you can't carry too many heavy things because you could hurt yourself. 

'I actually did hiking in my corset and that's very dangerous. 

'I also played soft ball in a corset once, that was an interesting feeling, but I don't go to the gym in a corset - that's really dangerous because I do weight lifting. 

'But if I do want to do something extreme, I don't limit myself. If I have to be out of my corset, then I'm out of it.' 

But despite the limitations, Kelly has no plans to hang up her corset, despite facing some negative comments online. 

She said: 'I get mixed reactions. 

'Some people really love it, some people really hate it, but I always did it for myself - I didn't really do it for people's reactions. 

'I love modifying and its often mistaken that modification is being a means of not loving yourself but I modify because I can, because it's fun. 

'People say that it looks unnatural, but I have big bright blue hair - what part of me screams that I want to be like everybody else?'

Culled from DailyMail UK