Meet the woman with Britain's thinnest waist: Nerina Orton, 22, has a midsection that measures a mere 15.7 inches around. (For comparison, a regulation softball's circumference is 12 inches around.) The part-time burlesque dancer and biomedical sciences student has achieved her tiny figure through years of restrictive corset-wearing, the Sun reports. Orton, who measures 5'4", began the practice at age 14. She now owns 78 corsets and wears the Victorian garment between 20 and 23 hours every day, wearing it to bed and only taking it off to shower. Orton is just 0.7 inches from the Guinness World Record currently held by American Cathie Jung, who at 75 years old still amazes audiences with her...
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