Body shapers can be hazardous to your health

Celebrities are becoming more open about wearing body shapers, even admitting to wearing multiple shapers at once.

But doctors say that isn’t safe, and can even be life-threatening.

Many women are wearing the tightly-fitting garments every day.

Dr. Faraneh Sabi of Kaiser Permanete warns wearing multiple shapers or ones that are too tight can cause infections and even blood clots.

“When women wear really tightly configured clothing, sometimes it can decrease the blood flow or what we call circulation to the body and what that can do is that it can actually lead to blood clots and those blood clots can travel to the lungs, to the heart and parts of the brain and that can lead to even death.”

Other complications can include nerve damage and bacterial infections.

Sabi encourages women not to wear body shapers that are too small and to also be accepting of their bodies.

-with files from NBC News