Pixee Fox: Getting my ribs removed has always
been like a dream of mine.
Pixee Fox: 6 billion people in the world,
why should everyone look the same? Boring.
COMM: Pixee Fox has had 6 ribs removed to
allow her to corset her waist to an eye watering 16 inches. So far she has spent almost 120,000
dollars on surgery to look more like the cartoon characters she idolizes.
Pixee Fox: I've always been inspired by
cartoons and Disney movies, all the curves and tiny waists. People often they come up
to me and say don’t take this the wrong way but you look like a cartoon.
00:44 Woman: Can you breathe? Oh my god! Well I
Woman: Can you breathe? Oh my god! Well I wish I could get mine that small.
COMM: Pixee grew up in a small town in Sweden
but never felt like she belonged.
Pixee Fox: I have been in a place where I
felt like I can’t relate, I can’t be myself and I felt really really lost. Always
felt like I need to go somewhere. I need to do something. I need to surround myself with
people like me.
COMM: The former electrician moved to America
where she embarked on a series of cosmetic procedures to look more like her favorite
animated characters.
PIXEE FOX: My inspiration started with Tinker
Bell ‘cause I looked really much like her. But later for my transformation I’ll be
more and more starting to look like Jessica Rabbit. There are so many people out there
like for example transsexual people. They feel like one person inside and it doesn’t
reflect their outside. And for me this is not who I am on the inside. I have done nose
job, eyelid surgery, brow lift. I have done, I have lip filler. I have some, some fillers
here in my cheeks. I have done my boobs four times. I have done Brazilian butt lift, permanent makeup.
COMM: To maintain her extreme hourglass figure,
she sticks to a strict exercise and diet regime and wears a corset 24 hours a day.
COMM: Pixee has over 70,000 followers on Instagram
but even some of them were shocked when she announced her next surgery, removal of six ribs
to allow her to corset her waist even tighter. The procedure will cost her 9000 dollars.
PIXEE FOX: Getting my ribs removed, I have
been thinking about for a long time. So it’s always been like a dream of mine but it’s
really hard to find a surgeon, almost impossible. The only reason why I can do it now is because
doctors finally started taking me seriously, because they see that I'm not a crazy person
and I know what I am doing.
COMM: The surgeon who’s agreed to perform the
operation is Dr. Barry Eppley.
DOCTOR: There's nothing complex, extraordinary
or unduly difficult about it. It does require an extremely motivated patient. And I think
certainly Pixee would qualify. A motivated patient is somebody who can accept the scars
that come from the procedure as well as is prepared for the discomfort in the short term
as you might imagine that comes from taking several ribs. It’s not an operation which
feels great afterwards but certainly she is about as motivated a person as you are going
to find. She is going to have pain, muscle pain. Everybody who has ever eaten ribs, you
are eating the intercostal muscles; that’s what we have to strip off the rib to get to
it but the good news is we know, it’s not a comfortable procedure but we
know how to help manage it.
COMM: After 5 hours of surgery the rib removal
procedure is complete.
PIXEE FOX: It’s crazy. Can’t believe that
just happened. That just happened.
COMM: Recovery time is supposed to be 6 weeks
but after just 2 weeks Pixee is already up and about.
PIXEE FOX: I am super happy. I have been dreaming
of this for like 3 years. That makes me able to corset like even tighter. In a few weeks
I'm gonna get hip and butt implants. It’s going to be even more extreme.
COMM: Now when she wears a corset her waist
is an incredible 16 inches.
PIXEE FOX: I'm pretty close to the world
record and I think that if I just get time to heal and start working out and continue my
lifestyle I'm probably gonna go down to 14 inch soon. I think 15 is the world record.
COMM: And she's proud to show off her new
figure in public
MAN: I will show my kids.
WOMAN: Amazing and incredible. Beautiful.
MAN: You don’t really see too many people
have their bodies looking like that.
WOMAN: It’s a little odd. It’s not something
I would choose to do. I mean to each his own but seems painful.
MAN: It got my attention. I came back.
PIXEE FOX: I'm really happy with how I look
now but I still see things that could be fixed. This is like my job, this is what I do and
I'm gonna keep on sculpturing. Tons of people write me every day, is really inspired by
what I do and they wish that they could do the same. I don’t want to inspire people
to get plastic surgery. What I want to do is to get like a message out there that it
is important to whatever you decide to do, that you should follow your dreams and dare
to be yourself.