The way corsets are popularised today seems to beg more questions than it answers. Doing away with the restrictive brace over the centuries was meant to be an act of physical and symbolic liberation.

For her role as Abigail in the 18th-century historical drama, Stone faced a corset that was anything but comfortable. It was so tight her organs, if you read that right—her organs. Stone ...

She said that the corset hasn't affected her health, but added "shifts your organs around in a bit of a different area". Wearing corsets, a fashion practice that dates back centuries, can pose ...

However the record holder did say wearing corsets all day "shifts your organs around in a bit of a different area". Her husband Bob is an orthopaedic surgeon and has been monitoring her health ...

Corsets, or waist trainers as they're sometimes called, work by applying pressure to your midsection. Traditionally made with strong fabric and reinforced with boning, they compress your waist ...

Much like Dakota Fanning before her, Emma Stone confessed that wearing a corset for her new film The ... “After a month, all my organs shifted — it was gross and if you don’t have to ...

Tight compression via corsets can affect digestion ... and daily wearing may cause suppression of blood flow to different organs of the stomach leading to indigestion and problems in the motility ...

laced into a corset strung so tight that she looked like a depressed wasp, her waist so compressed it was barely wider than her neck. Only with painful squishing could her internal organs ...

Image: Pexels To put it simply, prolonged and extreme corset wearing has been linked to a range of critical health issues, from ribcage deformation and abdominal organ compression to lung capacity ...

When you regularly wear it over time, a corset "can definitely impair the natural movement of your diaphragm and cause impairment to the internal organs," Shepherd says. Essentially, if you enjoy ...

potentially cutting off the internal blood supply to the organs. Historical cases of liver and rib damage have even been reported from corset use. Restriction of movement while wearing a corset ...