Painful ‘Rib Remodeling’ Trend Rises Among Women Seeking Smaller Waists

In the pursuit of a slimmer figure, some people are running into the natural limitations of their skeletons: most notably, their rib cage.

While corsets grew in popularity in the mid-2010s as celebrities and influencers touted “waist training” as the secret to their hourglass bodies, women now seek something more permanent.

Insert the RibXcar “rib remodeling,” a relatively new and surprisingly trendy surgical technique in which the rib bones are broken to heal in a new, thinner shape.

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