Photos: The girl with 16 inch waist

Model Kelly Lee Dekay went to extreme lengths to get an hourglass figure with

7 years continued use of bone corset which slimmed her waist down to a tiny 16 inches.

Dekay, 27, says she was a tomboy growing up, but accentuated her curves as a way to emulate her favourite female comic book characters, like Storm.

"I have no interest in doing anything smaller than 16 because I really love the ratio and I'm more than satisfied," she says.