Jenya Bolotov has stretched eight parts of his face to
achieve the duck-billed mammal look saying being a platypus is ‘what I have
always wanted to be’.
He added: ‘Externally, I am now a platypus. Inside though, I
am more like a bird. They’re my spirit animal and they come to me in my
dreams.’His body modifications include two holes either side of his
nostrils, giant plugs in lips to give himself a ‘beak’, a hole inserted into
his septum and stretched ear lobes.
The 26-year-old, from Russia, is also the first person to
get the bridge of his nose stretched. Jenya, who is single, said: ‘I love
platypus – the way they look and even the word ‘platypus’ itself. I like the
way my stretched face and lips now look like a platypus bill.‘All of the modifications I have added to my body make me
feel whole. This is what I am now. It is what I have always wanted to be.’As a child Jenya was shy and felt like he didn’t belong in
the human world.
He first explored body piercings when he was just
ten-years-old and his obsession spiraled from there.He said: ‘I was a very quiet child. When I was a kid, I felt
as if I didn’t belong in this world. I felt like it wasn’t my world and that I
was looking at it as if from outside. I knew that I would have to genuinely
change myself and live differently to feel happy. Aged 19, he began stretching
his lips to look like the egg-laying mammal.His lips are now 58mm wide on his bottom lip and 33mm on his
top lip.
He said: ‘Then my friend said that if anyone could achieve a
truly big, horizontal lip, they would look like a platypus. I wanted to be like
that. I loved the large bill of a platypus.’He added:’I can eat, talk and speak on the phone like
everyone else. Nothing has changed at all. I do attract a lot of negative
attention when I walk down the street and sometimes people make mean comments.‘I’m used to it now though and I just try to ignore them.’More pic below
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