We spoke to experts, as well as one corset fan, on the pros and cons of "training" your waist. Most days, Diana Ringo wears her corset—made from steel bones and cords—under her clothing.

It’s not hard to see why waist training has taken off: All you have to do is strap the thing on — whether it’s a rigid corset or a flexible fabric wrap — and try not to pass out.

She then drops in: ‘I wear a corset.’ Describing it as a ‘modern, steel-boned, waist-training’ corset, Sarah reveals she wears it for a shocking 16 hours a day. Dr Colón tells the camera ...

a tight waist trainer or even a Victorian-style corset. "It makes the waist super snatched, and it makes your bust a little bigger," said Dr. Shayan Izaddoost, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon ...

Old-fashioned corsets are making a comeback, this time as a slim-down device to shrink the waist Kim Kardashian and Jessica Alba are among the celebrities who've touted "waist training" Dr ...

Now, ordinary women everywhere are sharing photos of whittled waists on social media and crediting "waist training" — the 21st century nod to the corset. Many of them are like entrepreneur Cass ...

Celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz (popularly known as Dr Oz) previously did a show on the effects of waist training. He profiled a woman who uses corsets to contour her waist. "The squeezing of the lungs can ...

Of course, Kardashian isn't wearing corsets with the same frequency as women in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. But she has spoken in the past about relying on waist training as a way to ...