This granny is waisted
So I’m sick with an awful cold/sore throat thing and don’t have the energy to come up with a really deep or amazing post. Though I do think this has the potential to become an amazing post (love the pics!)
How much influence do you think a book can have over the average person? Can it change the world? Can it change your life? Or maybe it just makes you want to become Scarlett O’Hara and reshape your body into some kind of twisted freak show.
Yes, that’s right ladies and gents, I think someone has been reading a little too much Gone with the Wind. Meet Cathie Jung. A 70 year old grandma who holds the Guinness record for having a waist the size of a mayonnaise jar. She bested Scarlett’s 17″ waist (a character in a book, mind you) and created a 15″ one.
Cathie Jung’s waist is about the same size as a regular jar of mayonnaise. She’s been wearing a corset every day for the past 12 years, and she now wears one 24 hours a day. “I probably have around 100 of them,” says the corset queen.
All right. Now I love corsets, I think they’re sexy and don’t mind putting one on every once in a blue moon (like to get us free drinks in Atlanta!) But this just seems a little…oh, gross. And don’t you just look at her and imagine the top half snapping off and falling to the ground like an iceberg?
October 1st, 2007 at 1:15 am
Look at the women’s expressions when they’re looking at her! You know they’re thinking she’s a freak show!
Speaking of freak show, what’s up with that one chick’s hat? I don’t get it.
And this “waisted” grandma is nuts. Completely crazy.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:23 am
Yeah the hat’s a little weird. And yeah their expressions pretty much sum it up. It’s just too eerie. I just have the image of her getting snapped in half. There’s nothing in the middle. How does she walk?
October 1st, 2007 at 1:32 am
Two words: PSY-CHO!
Pray she doesn’t have any teenaged granddaughters.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:40 am
Yeah, I can’t really think about the whole organs thing. And we were discussing the fact she’s probably had ribs removed too. Bleh. Her and Marilyn Manson should get together.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:12 am
Ewwwwwwwwwwww!
October 1st, 2007 at 7:13 am
On the upside she can donate her body to science. I bet it will be interesting to see what she’s done to her insides.
JAC
October 1st, 2007 at 9:30 am
Ow. I’m feeling super bloated today so that picture is particularly painful to behold.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:35 am
Even Scarlett’s waist ballooned to 21 inches after she had a couple of kids!
Wow — that’s kind of disturbing. It certainly makes me feel better about my own waistline.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:01 am
Who would want a 15″ waist?
That just looks kinda gross.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:26 am
OMG!
What about her internal organs?
Women died because of corsets…but they didn’t know any better back in the 19th century.
We should know better now.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:53 am
JAC! I love that ‘donate her body to science’
SERIOUSLY!! No kidding!
October 1st, 2007 at 12:52 pm
EW! Just EW!!!!
October 1st, 2007 at 1:27 pm
October 1st, 2007 at 1:32 pm
I think maybe it’s a competitive thing. It starts out vanity, and then it gets to the point where they want to be the smallest waist. Get into the book. The scary thing is there’s probably a bunch of corset wearing chicks out there determined to beat her now.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:31 pm
OMG I’m not sure whether I hurt from seeing those pics or am going to be sick. That is just too small. I love corsets but that’s a no on a waist that small.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Ouch!
Just, OUCH!
October 1st, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Eww! That’s just nasty.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Nicole, I agree. I’m a corset fan too (though I really only wore them when I was going out or trying to look different/sexy)
Lesa, Yes. Definitely yes.
Lori! OMG! Long time no see
I miss you chickadee!
October 1st, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Yuck.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:06 pm
That’s seriously scary gross!
October 1st, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I am speachless.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Where are her organs? That is seriously sick!
October 1st, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Organs, schmorgans. Who needs them?
October 1st, 2007 at 5:15 pm
She looks like a Barbie with her bottom half on backward.
October 1st, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Hi Sara!! Seriously. I looked at the first pic and thought she was one of those blow up dolls men buy.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:05 am
That’s really icky. And I wonder what possessed her to wear such shiny tights. Makes her legs look plastic.
Like Barbie. Only even more disgusting.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Hm. I’m actually fascinated with the idea of corset training.
But I won’t be when I’m 80.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Hey Feisty, I am a little bit too. But just a tiny weeny bit of training. I think a little more hour glass could be fun. This is just x-treme.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Can we say she’s taken this a bit far?
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I think it became an obsession. To be the best.
October 5th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Shelli said: “Bleh. Her and Marilyn Manson should get together.”
You realize that’s an urban legend, right? http://www.snopes.com/horrors/vanities/ribs.asp (Second paragraph down as a side-note.)
As for the woman — man. *shakes head* Talk about going waaaay too far…
October 5th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Nonny, no I didn’t know that was a myth! I’d just heard it only recently. Interesting!