00:02 COMM: An hourglass figure is a dream for many
women, but Penny Brown has taken it to extreme levels.
00:08 PENNY: I've always had a small waist, big
hips and large boobs, but I'm kind of a go hard or go home sort of person so I wanted
to make that significantly more extreme, more dramatic, more stunning, more wonderful.
00:25 COMM: After boosting her bust to an O cup
with surgery, 25-year-old Penny is now using controversial corset training, to shrink her
waist from 38 to 26 inches.
00:37 PENNY: At the end of the day, I want my waist
to be half of my hip measurement.
00:42 COMM: Disturbing it's claimed that wearing
corsets for long periods of time can weaken muscles, and even move internal organs.
But Penny ins't worried.
00:51 PENNY: There are dangers, but they aren't
really applicable to me.
00:56 COMM: Penny can wear her corset for up tot
23 hours a day, even while she she sleep.
01:02 PENNY: It feels like armour.
Or like I'm being hugged constantly.
It's like a safety blanket.
I feel protected and safe from the world.
01:11 COMM: But she admits there are some drawbacks.
01:14 PENNY I have a lot harder time driving and
y'know it's harder just kind of laying relaxed, you can't have a full meal when you're in
a corset because you just end up feeling bloated and uncomfortable and you end up in pain.
01:29 COMM: And she says she's not going to stop,
despite a backlash online, where she posts videos of herself.
01:36 PENNY: Online I have faced endless negativity,
but I mean I also get a lot of positivity as well but it's the internet.
Death threats are never a nice thin but, people are going to be dramatic no matter what so.
01:53 COMM: Penny's extreme shape certainly attracts
a lot of attention on the small Japanese island of Okinawa, where she lives with husband Cooper.
02:02 PENNY: I get just hoards of people asking
for photographs with me or saying that I look beautiful or amazing, or my waist is stunning
or that my boobs look great, or that I'm so pretty and cute.
I mean I get so much positive reactions from people on the street and in real life.
02:19 COMM: And far from being jealous of all the
attention Penny gets, Cooper loves his wife's look.
02:25 COOPER: It's different and that's exciting,
I like interesting things, I don't like the ordinary, or the generic.
02:36 COMM: Penny is now planning even more surgery
to double her breast size, and she hopes her extraordinary figure will help make waves
inn the modelling world.
But in the meantime she wants to encourage other women to be more body confident.
02:50 PENNY: Corseting has helped me not fear people,
not fear myself.
I just, it gives me the confidence to just be who I wanna be, and dress the way I wanna
dress.
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