Woman wears corset for 23 hours every day to maintain tiny 20-inch waist

Aleira is ignoring doctors’ advice to maintain her extreme curves (Picture: Barcroft)

The Kardashians like to tout it as the secret to their hourglass curves, but doctors are warning against the new craze for waist training.
One young woman ignoring doctor’s orders – and taking the trend to its extreme – is 25-year-old Aleira Avendano from Venezuela
She’s been wearing a corset 23 hours a day, for the last six years, to maintain her tiny 20-inch waist.
She even sleeps with the corset on, calling it her second skin.
‘I love the feeling of pressure and only take it off for an hour a day to rest and to wash myself,’ she says.

Ouch – looks painful to us (Picture: Barcroft)

 

However, her doctor fears she is pushing her body too far.
Dr Andrés Ruiz, said: ‘In my medical opinion she should stop this immediately. Thank God she has not done any damage so far but she should stop before it’s too late.
‘It happens because the floating ribs at the bottom of the rib cage are easier to mold – it’s definitely possible to achieve this waist without surgery,’ he adds.

Aleira admits reaction to her figure is mixed (Picture: Barcroft)

Aleira, who turns heads in her home city of Caracas, has had other surgical procedures to make her shape more extreme, including three breast augmentations, nose and lip jobs, buttock implants, and liposuction.
She also maintains her figure with diet and exercise. She says she eats small portions of egg whites, lots of fruit and little bits of meat, and claims she has ‘no problem doing exercise.’
She adds: ‘This is the best thing that has happened to me. I would like to be known for my waist, not for having the smallest waist in the world but rather for my waist and my entire body.’
Actress Lily James recently came under fire for wearing a corset during the filming of Cinderella, with some commenting that her tiny waist was setting ‘unrealistic expectations’ for young viewers.

Lily Jones shows off her tiny waist – achieved with a corset – for Cinderella (Picture: Disney)

Lily admitted she found it difficult to eat while wearing the corset.
‘If you ate food it didn’t really digest properly, and I’d be burping all afternoon in [Richard Madden’s] face, and it was just really sort of unpleasant. I’d have soup so that I could still eat but it wouldn’t get stuck,’ she said.
Sounds lovely.