Truth is Granger Than Fiction

It's pretty damned sick when anorexia becomes the new standard of beauty.

That "model" appears to have been corseted (edit: she was). That's not a natural, Jayne Mansfield-type hourglass figure, assuming Mansfield didn't get that way by corseting herself.

Even so, they both are a far cry from Ethel Granger. Her husband, by the way, appeared to have been a sadistic bastard and wanted to mold her into some kind of ideal. Of course she went along with it and became a freak (the quote is from a dead link):

During the war Will's employment changed several times and in peacetime he found himself working where there were several attractive women, so Will decided to try some deception on Ethel. He pretended that he was attracted by one woman at work, who was indeed interested in corsets and ear rings. Ethel was badly shaken. Shouting and weeping, she raged at Will, which he found better than her previous indifference. Will then told her that nothing had happened between him and the other woman, that he had never even kissed her, but if Ethel continued to let her figure deteriorate, she would have only herself to blame. He reminded her of what drew him to her, so after much weeping, she promised to do anything he wanted her to do.

They kissed, and Will, with his arms around her waist, told her that she had to recover her prewar figure and start wearing high heels on the right occasions. Also he said that her ears should have more piercings, also her nostrils and nipples, the latter in the hopes of enlarging her breasts. Ethel was willing to suffer whatever pain or restrictions might be involved in order to keep Will. She promised not to loosen her corset when Will was not there, as she had previously been doing.

What a manipulative son of a bitch. He was all upset because Ethel dared to let her figure slide from her usual thirteen-inch waist to an obese sixteen inches. Ethel should have divorced him. Instead, she did whatever was asked of her including subjecting herself to grotesque body piercings to go along with her grotesque-looking, corseted waist. I suppose they were both into that S&M shit.
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