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?