Cathie Jung

Catherine Climenko Jung was an American Victorian dress and corset enthusiast residing in Manteo, North Carolina. Since 1999, she held the Guinness World Record for the smallest waist on a living person. Jung, who was 1.72 meters tall, had a waist that measured 38.1 centimeters.
Jung appeared uncredited, by her own choice, due to the undesirable contents, in the Matthew Barney film Cremaster 2 in the role of Baby Fay La Foe.

Personal life and death

Jung was married to Bob Jung, an orthopedic surgeon, with whom she had three children, including a daughter. Jung studied biology at Tufts University, where she met her future husband.
She began waist training in 1959, shortly before her marriage.
Jung died on August 19, 2025, at the age of 88.