List of people known for extensive body modification

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This is a list of individuals known for extensive body modification.

• Fakir Musafar, The father of the modern primitive movement, having exposed himself to body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing and suspension
• Pete Burns, had extensive polyacrylamide injections into his lips, along with cheek implants, several nose re-shapings and many tattoos
• Elaine Davidson, Brazilian the "Most Pierced Woman" according to the Guinness World Records.
• The Enigma
• Lolo Ferrari
• Julia Gnuse ("The Illustrated Lady")
• Cindy Jackson, had more cosmetic surgery procedures than anyone else in the world
• Cathie Jung, has the smallest waist in the world as a result of corsetry
• Katzen ("Cat woman")
• Tom Leppard, formerly considered by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the world's most tattooed man.
• Erik Sprague ("The Lizardman"), with sharpened teeth, full-body tattoo of green scales, bifurcated tongue, and recently, green-inked lips
• The Scary Guy, his nose, eyebrows and ears are pierced and tattoos cover 85 percent of his body.
• Lucky Diamond Rich, holds the Guinness world record as "the world's most tattooed person" as of 2006
• Hao Lulu, extensive cosmetic surgery in 2003 to alter her appearance, tagged "The Artificial Beauty"
• Horace Ridler ("The Great Omi"), tattooed in a pattern of curved black stripes, often described as zebra-like
• Pauly Unstoppable, the first person to get the white of his eye tattooed
• Stalking Cat ("Cat man")
• Stelarc, got a cell-cultivated ear implanted into his left arm
• Kevin Warwick, a scientist, in 1998 became the first human to experiment with an RFID implant. He followed that up in 2002 by having a 100 electrode array implanted in his nervous system.
• Jocelyn Wildenstein ("Lion Queen/Cat Woman")
• Heidi Montag, had ten plastic surgeries in one day
• Orlan, French performance artist
• Nina Arsenault, Canadian performance artist
• Steve Haworth
• Rick Genest "Rico" (The Zombie Boy/Rico the Zombie), Canadian artist and fashion model featured on Lady Gaga's album Born This Way. Has his entire head and torso tattooed so as to appear like a decaying cadaver.
• Victor Hugo Peralta and his wife Gabriela were, as of November 2012, the most modified married couple.
• Maria Jose Cristerna

Body modification hoax:

• Jasmine Tridevil (real name Alisha Jasmine Hessler), implanting of a third breast