- Now we're getting into the facts.
Have you ever wanted to be someone else?
You know, maybe your life isn't as perfect
as you'd like it to be, and you see someone else
that maybe you're a little jealous of and you think
man, it would be cool if I was them.
Well, that's pretty common, but what might surprise you
is that there is some people that take it a step further
and not only wish that they were fictional characters,
but actually turn themselves into those characters.
Here are 10 people who turned themselves
into fictional characters.
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Number 10 is Cartoon Character.
28-year-old Pixee Fox used to consider herself
to be a tomboy, but one day she decided that
looking like a human being just wasn't for her,
and opted to become what she calls a living cartoon.
She's had over 200 procedures,
including having her ears sewn to a point
and her nose changed to resemble a fairy's,
as well as even having her ribs removed
to give her a super thin waist.
Originally from Stockholm, Sweden,
Fox has been over all over the world
hunting for surgeons that were daring enough
to pull off these procedures that she wants,
some of them of her own design.
She's currently the only known person
to have an eyelash transplant, using her own pubic hair.
(gags) Sorry, let's continue.
For Fox, the entire transformation is completely justified,
as she claims that she's never in her life
felt like she was human, instead describing herself
as a fantasy creature.
A fantasy creature with eyelashes made of nasty bits.
That's gross.
Number nine is Anime Girl.
In February of 2010, 27-year-old Jacqueline Koh
began a surgical journey to become something
she felt was truly captivating, an anime character.
A blogger living in Singapore, Koh spent over $136,000
just on procedures which included breast augmentation,
liposuction, rhinoplasty, and body reshaping.
She's also had her ears pinned back
and her eyelids adjusted, and that's just some of the work
that this woman has had done.
Ironically, Koh wasn't even a fan of anime characters
before electing to have the surgeries.
She simply adored their big eyes
and small, heart-shaped faces.
If that's the case, I'm surprised she didn't
just get tattoos all over her face
to make her look like Majora's Mask.
Unfortunately, in 2016 after having her alternations
for six years, Koh had to have her implants removed
when her chin implant became infected
and her breast implants ruptured.
Man, that's terrible, she's having pieces fall off
her like a counterfeit Chinese Barbie doll.
Number eight is Jessica Rabbit.
The largest rabbit on Earth, Alice,
belongs to a world-famous breeder
and former model from Worcester, England
named Annette Edwards, who is so obsessed with the animals
that she decided to, in a manner of speaking, become one.
(muttering) What's up, Doc?
Taking inspiration from the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit,
the 66-year-old chose to spend over 10,000 pounds
on procedures in order to alter her appearance so that she
would resemble the title character's wife, Jessica Rabbit.
Edwards, who has 10 children, kinda like a rabbit would,
I guess, is already a great grandmother,
electing to have a number of plastic surgeries,
including Botox injections,
a breast uplift, and chin implants.
But she credits none of her toned body on liposuction,
claiming her rabbit diet and strict exercise
gives her the rest of the Jessica Rabbit look.
Well hey, on the bright side,
at least she didn't try to implant
some sort of fluffy fake tail thing on her butt,
because that would be weird.
Number seven is Michelangelo's David.
(birds singing)
In less than a year, a 20-year-old Japanese man,
known only as Alan, spent over $150,000 on plastic surgery,
transforming himself into the most beautiful thing
that he could think of, legendary renaissance artist
Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Statue of David.
Alan moved to Tokyo when he was just 16,
and funded his long list of procedures through
sponsorships that he received from as many as
five older women with whom the teen was then involved.
His goal was to have an ageless and foreign-looking face,
which has been the primary focus of his various procedures,
including having two nose jobs,
chin injections to change its shape,
and a number of lift and tucks to eliminate wrinkles.
Although he hasn't quite reached a point
where he truly resembles the Statue of David,
Alan seems to be very happy with his new beauty.
I mean, hey, why stop there?
Why not just start lopping off body parts
and replacing them with marble arms and legs?
(giggles)
Number six is a genderless alien.
Since he was just 18 years old,
aspiring makeup artist and model Vinnie Ohh
has wanted to be something not so human,
specifically he wants to resemble on the outside
what he feels like on the inside, a genderless alien being.
Now 23, Ohh, who lives in Los Angeles, California,
has spent over $50,000 on his quest
to become a hybrid martian-like creature,
starting with a nose job at 19.
That was followed shortly afterwards by two more surgeries
and 110 other procedures including several
cheek and brow fillers, Botox, and 20 cryo-facial freezings.
His goal is to look the way
the little green men appear in popular media.
Ohh has claimed that he's looking for surgeons
who are prepared as well as skilled enough
to remove both of his nipples, his bellybutton,
and of course his uh, sexual organs.
You know, I saw an episode of Star Trek once
where the alien had his genitals on his knee.
Why not go that route?
Number five is the Devil.
(birds singing)
(growls)
See, now someone's gonna tweet that as a .gif.
In April of 2009, then 39-year-old Gavin Paslow
was found guilty of swindling benefit money
while working as a security guard.
Paslow, who lived in Kent, England,
has taken over 3,550 pounds
so that he could fund his transformation
into the prince of darkness himself, Satan.
He underwent operations which gave him budding horns
made of Teflon, fangs made of ceramic crowns,
and pointed tipped ears, which involved
having his own ears clipped.
He even had a specialist cut his tongue
straight down the middle with a scalpel
so that he could have Lucifer's legendary forked tongue.
After his transformation was complete,
he changed his name to Diablo Delenfer,
which apparently means devil from the inferno.
Yeah, I mean sure, why not?
That makes just as much sense as changing your name
to Scary Scary Stay Away From Me Delenfer.
Number four is Superman.
To transform into his alter ego Superman,
the fictional Clark Kent simply had to take off his glasses,
tear open his shirt, and spin around
in a phone booth for a few seconds.
But to achieve the same thing,
one real life man has actually gone a whole lot further
and undergone 26 surgical procedures
so that he could resemble the Man of Steel.
That man is 40-year-old Herbert Chavez of the Philippines,
who fell in love with the DC superhero as a kid.
Since then, he's gone through skin whitening,
nose jobs, jaw realignment, and many other
procedures to embody Superman.
But Chavez's obsession has done
some serious damage to his body.
Back in 2015 after discovering he'd
injected himself with poisonous ab fillers,
doctors refused to perform more surgeries,
but that merely slowed the Philippino Superman down.
Because he's still at it and he still wants to be
more and more Superman, so yeah.
You know, if he isn't careful,
he's gonna go up, up, and away
to Heaven because he's gonna die.
Number three is a French doll.
A number of Asian women have elected
to undergo plastic surgery,
paying top dollar for double eyelid surgeries
and nose jobs in an attempt to look more western.
However, Japanese model Vanilla Shemyu
decided to go much, much further than that
as she nears her goal of not only looking
less Japanese, but less alive.
As a teen, Shemyu was bullied for being ugly,
but since then has undergone over 30 procedures
in order to resemble something that she feels
is truly beautiful, a living French doll.
She's received eyelash implants, liposuction,
breast implants, and had dimple creation surgery,
just to name a few.
In total, Shemyu has spent over 10 million yen,
or around $102,000 on her transformation.
She's even been labeled by some media outlets
as a plastic surgery cyborg.
Want to look beautiful, love me, love me.
Number two is a human Ken doll.
In an attempt to become the best person
he could physically be, 35-year-old Rodrigo Alvez
turned to plastic surgery.
Born in Brazil, Alvez moved to Britain
when he was just 19, seeking a procedure
to correct his gynecomastia, a disorder in which
male breast tissue drastically increases.
However, he didn't stop there.
Since then, he's had over 100 more procedures done,
including hair implants, face lifts,
and nine rhinoplasties.
He's also had four ribs removed
so that he could do up his blazers more easily.
Alvez has shelled out over, and I hope you're
sitting down for this, $500,000 to plastic surgeons
for procedures that he felt he needed to perfect himself.
And although the initial purpose of all of that work
being done wasn't to make him look like he should be
in a box with Mattel on the side of it,
he embraced his role as the human Ken doll.
I bet he listens to that old Aqua song a lot, remember it?
♪ I'm a Barbie girl (mutters) ♪
And number one is a human Barbie.
Mm-hmm, speaking of that Barbie doll song.
Millions of girls grew up playing with Barbies,
dressing them up, combing their hair,
and living vicariously through them as they provide
the dolls with stylish clothes and dream houses,
but eventually, most of those girls grow up
and realize that it's impossible to be the perfect
specimen that is Barbie.
That is, of course, with the exception of people
like 33-year-old Russian model Valeria Lukyanova,
who never let go of that dream and later in life
chose to become the doll through plastic surgery.
Called the human Barbie by her fans,
Valeria has taken drastic measures
to make herself appear as plastic as the toys are.
Her first surgery was a breast augmentation,
followed by a number of procedures that made her
look much more like the Mattel toy
and it is truly creepy.
But hey, whatever floats your boat.
I mean, it's 2019, we're all whatever we wanna be.
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