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Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:13 PM on 4th February 2012
A model with a waist of just 20 inches has insisted she eats three square meals a day, including fatty foods such as crisps, pizza and kebas.
30-year-old Ioana Spangenberg measures in at 5ft 6 inches tall, weighing six stone.
The model told The Sun: ‘No one seems to believe it, but every day i eat three big meals and I snack on chocolate and crisps all the time. I just have a small stomach. It’s a bit like a gastric band, if I eat too much I feel sick’.
Hourglass figure: Ioana Spangenberg’s waist measures in at an incredible 20-inches
Mrs Spangenberg was born a a very normal weight of seven pounds, and only saw her body transform into what it is now when she was a teenager.
When she was 13 she would get friends to put their hands completely around her 15in waist.
She says she has tried to fatten up, eating sweets like Mars bars to do so, but to no avail.
‘In Romania it is better to be overweight, because that means you are from a wealthy family.’
It was only in 2006 when she met her German husband Jan, that she says she finally became comfortable in her own skin.
He encouraged her to become a model after photographs he posted of her online received a fantastic reaction.
‘I would still like to gain weight so I don’t look so shocking. And now that I live in Germany I can’t get enough pizza or kebabs.’
Ioana weighs just six stone despite she says eating fatty foods such as crisps, pizza and kebabs
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janet, uk- You are exactly right. If you google her name you can see clearly she tight laces. Its not like this happened over night. Yes she probably does eat what she says but its not like she was born that way.
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She’s underweight and is wearing restricting corset. I hope she’s lying about not being able to gain weight because she seems very bony (and restricting her small waist doesn’t help, it just makes her hip bones look like they’re protruding further).
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Oh my goodness………….. revolting. Surely that will have an impact on her long-term health? Its almost horrifying.
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I wonder what all of that pressure is doing to her rib cage and organs. I doubt she can breath normally anymore and I cringe to think of how a constricted blood flow could harm her intestines – I have seen too many autopsy reports where a part gets twisted and necrotic, then poisons the body. She did not get that waist by nature. People who “corset train” for a smaller figure have to wear the garments 20 hours a day for years.
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she has a corset on and has TRAINED herself over the years by tying it up tighter. unfortunately by being this way she will suffer problems with her organs in that area.
the Victorians and those eras who were corseted has MASSIVE problems with digestive functions and some died because it was too tight. they were prone to fainting because their limited lung space were crushed too.
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I would love to have a waist like her ..am 5ft 5 … 38 , 24 , 36, can you really have ribs removed to achieve this look ..????????????? ..
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In years gone by it was not unusual to have a 22 inch waist rw, uk, 4/2/2012 16:56
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That is DISGUSTING!!!
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Weeeeird!!
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Damn that’s just awful!
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