Romanian model Ioana Spangeberg has a waist of just 20 inches

Ioana Spangenberg, a Romanian model with a waist of just 20 inches, has insisted she eats three square meals a day, including fatty foods such as crisps, pizza and kebabs.

Ioana Spangenberg, 30, measures 5ft 6 inches tall, weighing six stone.

She told The Sun: “No one seems to believe it, but every day I eat three big meals and I snack on chocolate and crisps all the time. I just have a small stomach. It’s a bit like a gastric band, if I eat too much I feel sick.”

Ioana Spangenberg was born a very normal weight of seven pounds, and only saw her body transform into what it is now when she was a teenager.

When she was 13, Ioana would get friends to put their hands completely around her 15 in waist.

Ioana Spangenberg says she has tried to fatten up, eating sweets like Mars bars to do so, but to no avail.

It was only in 2006 when she met her German husband Jan Spangenberg, that she says she finally became comfortable in her own skin.

Her husband encouraged her to become a model after photographs he posted of her online received a fantastic reaction.

“I would still like to gain weight so I don’t look so shocking. And now that I live in Germany I can’t get enough pizza or kebabs.”