A medical look at unusual and extreme body modifications and how they are performed.

Aug. 22 (UPI) --A Connecticut woman earned two Guinness World Records by covering 99.98% of her body in tattoos and having 89 body modifications. Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina, 36, of Bridgeport, was ...

"Turning darkness into beauty." That's how Esperance Fuerzina, a 36-year-old army veteran from Bridgeport, Connecticut, has etched her name in history by becoming the most tattooed woman in the world, ...

A Connecticut Army vet has taken home two Guinness World Records after inking and modifying 99.98% of her body — and is still carving out space for more. Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina officially became ...

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A Connecticut woman has etched her name in the Guinness World Records. Bridgeport resident Esperance Lumineska, 36, has 99.98% of her body covered in ink and she also has 89 body modifications, ...

She is the real life vampire who once held the world record for having the most body modifications. But Mexican tattoo lover Maria José Cristerna has urged young people to think carefully before ...

Setting a Guinness World Record wasn't something Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina set out to do when she first began her body transformation. "I chuckle a little bit because I say I got two Guinness World ...

The 31-year-old says her ear has already been 'f**ked up twice' as she's flown to Europe for body modification ...