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Body Modification

Body modification is the process of changing one's physical appearance. It can be done for cosmetic purposes, religious tradition, self-expression or as a rite of passage.

Common types of body modification include tattoos, piercings and implants.

More extreme forms of body modification include tattooing the eyeballs and splitting the tongue.

Mum spends 20 years and thousands on tattoos to cover body – including armpits
Tattoos
Alex Derbyshire, 38, a mum-of-two, got her first inking at 18. She went on to get designs on her hands, face, toes and ARMPITS. She also has blackout tattoos on her arms
Teen turns herself into 'bimbo Barbie' with tattooed eyeballs and extreme body mods
Body Modification
A teenager started calling herself "bimbo Barbie" after she fell in love with girlie style. The body modification fan, who has her eyeballs tattooed, wants a boob job to complete her "fake" look
Woman uses corset to shrink waist to just 16 inches – but lovers don’t like it
Body Modification
Sam, 26, has spent two years gradually shrinking her tiny waist to her perfect 'hourglass figure' using corsets – and she's almost made it to a world record
Man with 1,000 tattoos lifts lid on most painful inking – and it's not his eyeballs
Tattoos
Tattoo artist, Marcelo de Souza Ribeiro, 38, a dad-of-two has more than 1,000 tattoos, but bizarrely his eyeballs weren't the most painful place to get inked
Tattoo model gets bold new piercing after covering 98% of her body in ink and studs
Amber Luke
Tattoo model Amber Luke continues to explore her love for body modification. For her latest procedure, she got a jaw-dropping new piercing
Body modification 'monster' has pierced scrotum and wants 666 carved into his skull
Tattoos
WARNING GRAPHIC: Victor Hugo Peralta Rodriguez, 50, has tattoos from head to toe as well as scarification, a split tongue, subdermal implants and piercings – and he wants more
Tattoo artist obsessed with vampires explains ‘sexy but strange’ body art
Tattoos
London, 27, from Montréal, Canada, has hundreds of tattoos and models his look on his love for vampires, the occult, horror movies and all things mysterious
Woman spat at by strangers due to body modifications – but won’t stop getting them
Body Modification
A Twitch streamer receives hate when she walks around in public. Some take issue with her body modifications, which include tattooed eyeballs and a split tongue
Extreme body modification fan breaks world record for 'devil-like' appearance
Body Modification
Rolf Buchholz had his first tattoo and piercing only 20 years ago and since then he started to increase his modification. Despite the change in looks, he insists he's still the same person
Body modification fan turns 'orc' after getting huge tusks attached to teeth
Body Modification
Orc, 41, from the border of Paraguay and Brazil, has tattooed 80% of his body, including his eyeballs, and has a split tongue and sub-dermal piercings
Body mod fan spends £11k turning himself into 'Zombie' with inked eye and split tongue
Body Modification
Meet the real life "zombie" punk who has transformed his body with tattoos, piercings and jaw-dropping body modifications
Body mod couple slam strangers who call them 'ugly' and say they can't be good parents
Tattoos
A body modification-mad couple want to release the stigma of tattoos and other procedures. They hit back at trolls who question their parenting skills
'Mutant' man inks body black, gets horns implanted in head and keeps ears in jar
Body Modification
An extreme body modification fan transformed himself with tattoos, piercings and other grisly procedures. He got horns put in his head, his ears stretched and his tongue split in two
Model with the 'biggest cheeks in the world' says they're still too small
Body Modification
An Instagram model transformed her face by getting fillers injected in her face. She now says she's got the 'biggest cheeks in the world' – but wishes they were even larger
Extreme body modification fan turns 'alien' by getting tongue split and nose removed
Body Modification
Meet the real life "alien" who has transformed himself with extreme body modifications. The tattoo fan has inked his eyeballs, had his nose removed and split his tongue in two
Woman wears 15 inch corset for 18 hours a day in bid for 'world's smallest waist'
Body Modification
A woman is determined to have the "world's smallest waist". By waist training, she's managed to fit into a corset measuring just 15 inches
Tattoo model spends £38k on body modifications to turn into 'city cyborg'
Body Modification
A tattoo model has spent thousands on her "cyborg" appearance. She is covered in more than 100 inkings and has silicone implants in her head
Grim life and mystery death of Lolo Ferrari - from prostitution to exploding 54K boobs
Plastic Surgery
Eurotrash star Lolo Ferrari made it into the Guinness Book of World Records with her 54K boobs - and was tragically found dead in uneasy circumstances
Oddest body part records unveiled – from 28ft fingernails to the longest penis
Body Modification
Whether it's fitting a tennis ball in your mouth or having your ear canals tattooed, these bizarre bodies really know how to make a statement. Here are seven of the oddest body record holders
Mystery as giant facial piercings found on 12,000-year-old African skeleton
Body ModificationExperts claim "mutations" on the teeth were the result of giant piercings in the cheeks and lower lips of prehistoric humans. The skeleton was found in Tanzania in 1913.