- Both (groans).
- [Woman] Oh my goodness.
- Horned heads, missing ears,
an exceptionally snatched waist, what?
Today we are reacting to extreme body modifications.
Will some of these exaggerated mods
have major implications on their health?
We're about to find out.
Let's dive right in.
- Whoa!
- [Eva Tiamat Medusa] I have eight horns on my forehead.
I have had my ears removed.
- Wait a minute, you can implant anything
that's inert, so to speak.
We get breasts that are implanted.
We can get calf implants.
You can get butt implants.
Typically they don't cause much harm
and if somebody wants it there, they want it there.
- [Eva Tiamat Medusa] My nose reshaped.
Most of my teeth removed.
I've had the white part, the sclera, of my eyeballs
permanently stained green.
- Whoa, the sclera, the white part of the eye,
it's helpful to see if really red.
You can see if there's a hemorrhage.
You can see if it's turning yellow,
related to somebody who's got liver disease.
So when somebody has modified,
it actually makes it a little bit more difficult
when there's a potential of medical problems going on.
- [Eva Tiamat Medusa] My whole face is tattooed
and I have had some scarifications in my chin.
- The tattoo can get cellulitis,
which is inflammation of the skin,
typically treated with antibiotics.
Sometimes, very rarely, you have something
called necrotizing fasciitis
where the infection gets too deep.
It actually starts eating the tissue underneath
where you actually have to potentially that skin removed.
- [Eva Tiamat Medusa] And branding on my chest
and on my wrist.
- Oh, branding. (metal hisses)
Typically the only time I've ever seen branding tattoos
is related to fraternities where people
will get the letters of their fraternity branded in.
And then they have a keloids form,
which is basically a fancy word for scar tissue.
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- My transformation is, for me,
the greatest journey of my life.
- So some people like to run.
Some people like to work out.
Some people like to do their own body modifications.
A lot of times when somebody has so many requests
for body modifications, the doctor will actually
ask them to get cleared
by a psychiatrist or a psychologist
to say, "Okay, yeah, they're totally fine.
They can modify whatever they want."
- My mother and my stepdad ended up
abandoning myself and two of my siblings.
I was left at the age of five
in the land of the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake,
whom I adopted as my own parents.
- Wow, that's intense!
Different traumatic events in our lives
lead us down different paths.
My hope for this individual is everything's done safe.
Rattlesnakes, the venom, can be quite injurious,
can hurt you, can cause clotting issues.
- When I left corporate, it was because I became
HIV positive and I feared I was going to die.
- [Jordan] With HIV, the body's already fighting
and now you're putting other foreign bodies into your being.
Is that going to cause more inflammation?
And then potentially down the pipeline cause more issues
with the potential virus that's in your body?
- I know my tits are real
and I don't care what anybody thinks.
- Whoa, "Total Recall."
Anybody seen "Total Recall," Arnold Schwarzenegger?
I love the movie.
- The reason I got a third breast is
because I wanted to make myself
unattractive towards men sexually.
I just didn't want to be approached by men anymore.
- Interesting thinking.
We have breast tissue
and then there's the sternum in the middle.
Placing an implant underneath there,
there's not much subcutaneous tissue.
It's all bone here.
Be really interested to know how this actually was done.
- [Narrator] She finally found a doctor willing
to perform the procedure,
which she says cost $20,000 and took an hour and a half.
But she also claims he made her
sign a non-disclosure agreement,
meaning she can never reveal his name.
- Might look down upon in the medical community
and that's why the doctor doesn't wanna shed light
on who they are
because it's not a normal procedure to get done.
- Men will come up and ask for my picture,
but they're not asking because they're attracted.
They're asking because they're curious.
- I am assuming that it's a combination of fat taken
from somewhere else in her body
plus an implant, silicone or water.
There are different materials that are used.
- [Narrator] Despite her unwillingness to prove
that her operation was for real,
Jasmine remains defiant at her critics.
- At first glance, it looks
like a real implanted extra breast.
But, nowadays with makeup, advances in prosthetics,
sometimes you could do some really good things
that make it look real.
- Oh my gosh, that is so crazy.
I can see your teeth.
- What?
- (laughs) Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!
- I would have the same reaction.
- That's insane!
- [Jordan] We have people who have feeding tubes
into their stomach.
And if you take that tube out,
that hole seals up really fast
because the body heals that well.
So same idea here.
The fact that it's still an open spot means something
in the way to prevent it from closing.
Both...
Oh no, come on!
- [Woman] It's so strange
to see the toothbrush like that.
- That's just excessive.
- (Woman) (laughing) Oh my goodness.
- (laughs)The difficulty of spitting and saliva.
If you spit, does it come out the side?
(water splashing)
- Ow, use your mouth the way it's supposed to be!
Your teeth are exposed
in a different way to the environment,
risking dry mouth, dental issues.
Are your teeth gonna rot to where you're gonna
need dental transplants and all new teeth?
- [Woman] All of this is started from one tiny cut.
- [Joel Miggler] Yes. - Just one small cut?
- Yeah, it just stretched it.
- You have not removed any skin.
- [Joel Miggler] Nothing.
- Nothing, it's just stretched and stretched and stretched?
- I see something similar
when people do the stretch of their earlobes.
They get a piercing and they stretch that tissue out.
Our bodies are amazing in the sense
that they can adapt and change like that.
- My name is Sarah and I want to match the
world's smallest waist record or maybe beat it.
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- Wow, that's training your body over time
to shrink down like feet binding,
the thing, culturally, that people have done in the past
and it actually changes the anatomy of the foot itself.
Whoa!
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- [Sarah Vaeth] Getting down to 18 inches.
- I wore a corset when I was 16, 17 years old.
It was because I had fractured
my L5 transverse process playing soccer.
It had all those strings, but I got it
at a medical supply store, written as a prescription.
- [Sarah Vaeth] It's not about the aesthetics anymore.
It's about the challenge.
I am not concerned
that I'm doing anything to damage my organs.
I'm just curious how small I can go.
- The question ends up being
is the displacement of the organs.
Are things shifting and moving in different places?
In the middle is your large intestine,
your small intestine, there's not much there.
- I like to push myself.
I prefer a little bit of a gap at the top.
- [Man] There's no gap at the top.
- Yeah. I might loosen it back up at the top.
- And another thing you think about is
are you gonna pass out?
Because it's so tight that you're compressing
down your major blood vessels.
And then the other question is, does this individual
have any ribs removed to make it even tighter?
- Early on in the process,
it's a lot of soft tissue just being moved out of the way,
just like fat and skin and muscle.
And then you go closer and closer
and you're actually having to move floating ribs.
- I Would really like to see from a medical standpoint
what the body looks like without the corset on?
Is it kind of the body's like (graphic wooshing).
- Going as tight as I am now,
I'm having to eat a little differently.
I sleep in the corset
so I have to have a moderate dinner.
I have to spread my calories out throughout the day,
which I find a little tedious.
- (laughing) My then question would be
is there absorption with different types of nutrients
because of where it potentially is tight in the body?
Is it an area where you absorb your B12
or different vitamins that you might be deficient in?
Very interesting, very different.
As long as they're, you know, safe
and they're not causing any major harm to their own body,
they're not causing any harm to anybody else.
If you wanna do body modifications, that's up to you.
Just make sure you do it safely in a clean environment.
Otherwise you can end up seeing me
in the emergency department
in a situation that you don't wanna be in.
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