In what seems to be yet another strange ‘fitness’ trend in China, young women and girls have started to measure their waists using a sheet of A4-size paper.
A standard sheet of A4 paper, as defined by the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO), measures 8.27 inches wide when held up vertically.
A large number of social media users who were game enough to partake in this bizarre challenge flocked to China’s version of Twitter, Sina Weibo, to share pictures of their tiny waists.
Some of them showed off waistlines that were equal to or even slimmer than a sheet of A4 paper.
Chinese internet users have reportedly claimed that the slim waist fad is a healthy and attainable aim.
However, many netizens were also quick to slam the so-called ‘fitness’ fad and have called it “weird,wrong and worrying” while others poked fun at the trend.
Twitter user @thekimmyeast said: “My hip size is maybe like an A4 paper too…if you place the paper horizontally”.
Twitter, Sina Weibo
This is not the first time that China has obsessed over waistlines.
Earlier this year, Chinese women took part in another bizarre challenge to touch their belly buttons from behind their waist. Even celebrities took part in this odd trend which took China’s social media by storm.
Sina Entertainment, Sina Weibo
Despite the backlash that the trend attracted, it seems there is no stopping Chinese netizens when it comes to new and bizarre ways to challenge each other and demonstrate their beauty.
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