Imoen is wearing the belt and you cannot take it off of her.
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The belt prevents her from going below 1 hit point so that she makes it through Irenicus's dungeon in teh beginning. If she died in that dungeon, you wouldn't have any fight between her and Irenicus in the Market.
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Now where did I leave that doughnut?!