American woman Esperance Fuerzina has got 99.8 percent of her body tattooed and gone through 89 body modifications throughout her life.
The 36-year-old is inked from head to toe, and even has patterns on the soles of her feet as well.
She's blown previous record holder Charlotte Guttenberg, who had tattoos on 98.75 percent of her body, out of the water and realised when she looked up the record to beat that she'd already surpassed it.
Her first body modification was a split tongue, which she got in 2014, and since then her record of 89 far surpassed the previous record of 49 set in 2012 by Maria José Cristerna.
Esperance Fuerzina is the world's most tattooed woman, and the woman with the most body modifications. (SWNS)
"To be the most tattooed woman and to have the most body modifications feels a little crazy, I am grateful and excited for the future – and of course I am not done," she said of obtaining the Guinness World Records.
Getting tattoos and body modifications is not without pain, though Esperance has said she's learned to use meditation to deal with the hurt that comes with the ink.
The world record holder said receiving pain with a tattoo was 'a small moment in time for something I can keep for life'.
She said: "One of the riskiest mods I have is the sclera tattooing - that was a pretty intense modification.
"I've also done ink staining on my tongue and my gums as well as splitting my tongue."
"To be the most tattooed woman and to have the most body modifications feels a little crazy, I am grateful and excited for the future – and of course I am not done," she said of obtaining the Guinness World Records.
Getting tattoos and body modifications is not without pain, though Esperance has said she's learned to use meditation to deal with the hurt that comes with the ink.
The world record holder said receiving pain with a tattoo was 'a small moment in time for something I can keep for life'.
She said: "One of the riskiest mods I have is the sclera tattooing - that was a pretty intense modification.
"I've also done ink staining on my tongue and my gums as well as splitting my tongue."
She said getting her eyes tattooed was 'a pretty intense modification'. (SWNS)
Esperance isn't the only tattoo afficionado who's had the sclera process done, a woman who went in for the process twice said the first time around was the 'most excruciating pain I've ever gone through', but there was 'absolutely no pain during the second procedure.
The Guinness World Record holder has tattoos not just on her eyeballs but also on her eyelids, gums and tongue as well.
Other body modifications she had besides getting her tongue split include piercings, facial implants and having part of her ears removed.
She said she uses the tattoos to record memories, explaining: "I have had a pretty nomadic life, and not much room in my (army) pack, I felt I could take this with me wherever I go."
The 36-year-old believes they help her 'turn dark times into light', and said she is 'not done' with getting more tattoos and boy modifications.Featured Image Credit: SWNS
Published 15:51 23 Aug 2024 GMT+1
‘Most tattooed woman in the world’ with 99.8 percent of body covered explains why she did it
Esperance Fuerzina is a Guinness World Record holder
The most tattooed woman in the world, whose body is 99.8 percent covered in tats, has explained why she decided to coat herself in ink.
Esperance Fuerzina, 36, from Connecticut, has tattoos all over her body - from her scalp right down to the soles of her feet.
She's even inked some of the most sensitive parts of the body, including her eyelids, eyeballs, gums, tongue and genitals.
Esperance isn't the only tattoo afficionado who's had the sclera process done, a woman who went in for the process twice said the first time around was the 'most excruciating pain I've ever gone through', but there was 'absolutely no pain during the second procedure.
The Guinness World Record holder has tattoos not just on her eyeballs but also on her eyelids, gums and tongue as well.
Other body modifications she had besides getting her tongue split include piercings, facial implants and having part of her ears removed.
She said she uses the tattoos to record memories, explaining: "I have had a pretty nomadic life, and not much room in my (army) pack, I felt I could take this with me wherever I go."
The 36-year-old believes they help her 'turn dark times into light', and said she is 'not done' with getting more tattoos and boy modifications.Featured Image Credit: SWNS
Published 15:51 23 Aug 2024 GMT+1
‘Most tattooed woman in the world’ with 99.8 percent of body covered explains why she did it
Esperance Fuerzina is a Guinness World Record holder
The most tattooed woman in the world, whose body is 99.8 percent covered in tats, has explained why she decided to coat herself in ink.
Esperance Fuerzina, 36, from Connecticut, has tattoos all over her body - from her scalp right down to the soles of her feet.
She's even inked some of the most sensitive parts of the body, including her eyelids, eyeballs, gums, tongue and genitals.
Esperance Fuerzina has tattoos all over her body (SWNS)
After growing up in a military family and living all over the States as well as Japan, Fuerzina, who is an army veteran, got her first tattoo when she was 21.
Some 15 years on and she now holds the record for the woman with the most tattoos as well as the most body modifications in history.
Not only did Fuerzina split her tongue in 2014, she's also had 15 subdermal implants, several piercings and some other rather unique mods, too.
These include removing both of her nipples, injecting her split tongue with ink and doing the same to her inner labia.
Many people with tattoos find that once they have one, they're often left wanting more, but with barely an inch left on Fuerzina's body, many have wondered why she decided to get so many.
But the answer is really quite simple.
Explaining that she treats her skin like a canvas, Fuerzina's decision stemmed from her being in the military.
Having become accustomed to travelling light, instead of carrying around sentimental items such as photos, she inked them on her skin instead.
"I have had a pretty nomadic life, and not much room in my [army] pack, I felt I could take this with me wherever I go. It's just a small moment for something I can keep for life," she said.
After growing up in a military family and living all over the States as well as Japan, Fuerzina, who is an army veteran, got her first tattoo when she was 21.
Some 15 years on and she now holds the record for the woman with the most tattoos as well as the most body modifications in history.
Not only did Fuerzina split her tongue in 2014, she's also had 15 subdermal implants, several piercings and some other rather unique mods, too.
These include removing both of her nipples, injecting her split tongue with ink and doing the same to her inner labia.
Many people with tattoos find that once they have one, they're often left wanting more, but with barely an inch left on Fuerzina's body, many have wondered why she decided to get so many.
But the answer is really quite simple.
Explaining that she treats her skin like a canvas, Fuerzina's decision stemmed from her being in the military.
Having become accustomed to travelling light, instead of carrying around sentimental items such as photos, she inked them on her skin instead.
"I have had a pretty nomadic life, and not much room in my [army] pack, I felt I could take this with me wherever I go. It's just a small moment for something I can keep for life," she said.
She currently holds the world record (SWNS)
Despite having only 0.2 percent of her body left without tats, Fuerzina has said she's not done yet.
Speaking of the Guinness World Record she's achieved, she explained: "I was initially a little apprehensive.
"But I wanted to try to showcase the strength of women, and what's possible, by applying for the record myself.
"Initially, beginning my journey wasn't something I ever thought possible and, in the course of being myself, it became a reality... though holding the record is still sinking in.
"My aim for many years has been moving towards cohesiveness, so ultimately, I love the flow being generated as a whole.
"It's just a small moment for something I can keep for life."Featured Image Credit: SWNS
Despite having only 0.2 percent of her body left without tats, Fuerzina has said she's not done yet.
Speaking of the Guinness World Record she's achieved, she explained: "I was initially a little apprehensive.
"But I wanted to try to showcase the strength of women, and what's possible, by applying for the record myself.
"Initially, beginning my journey wasn't something I ever thought possible and, in the course of being myself, it became a reality... though holding the record is still sinking in.
"My aim for many years has been moving towards cohesiveness, so ultimately, I love the flow being generated as a whole.
"It's just a small moment for something I can keep for life."Featured Image Credit: SWNS
Updated 15:26 2 Mar 2024 GMTPublished 15:20 2 Mar 2024 GMT
'Big Mac expert' breaks his own world record for amount of Big Macs eaten in a lifetime
Don Gorske is the don of the Big Mac world.
The bloke behind Super Size Me hasn't got nothing on this guy - as when it comes to McDonald's, Don Gorske has never stopped lovin' it.
The 70-year-old fast food fanatic has managed to break his own world record for the most Big Macs eaten in a lifetime...for the second time.
He has devoured at least two of the beefy burgers every single day for more than five decades, but miraculously he still isn't sick of them - in fact, he intends to continue chowing down on them 'for the rest of his life'.
Don is the don of the Big Mac world and has continued his obsession with the snack since 17 May, 1972, which is the date he made his initial visit to the local McDonald's branch in his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
He said it was the first place he went after getting a new car, so to celebrate, he ordered and ate three Big Macs for lunch.
The retired prison guard liked the burgers so much, that he went back twice more in the same day to stuff another six down himself - and the rest, is history.
"In that moment, I said: 'I'm going to probably eat these for the rest of my life'," he recalled. "I threw the cartons in the back seat and started counting them from day one."
'Big Mac expert' breaks his own world record for amount of Big Macs eaten in a lifetime
Don Gorske is the don of the Big Mac world.
The bloke behind Super Size Me hasn't got nothing on this guy - as when it comes to McDonald's, Don Gorske has never stopped lovin' it.
The 70-year-old fast food fanatic has managed to break his own world record for the most Big Macs eaten in a lifetime...for the second time.
He has devoured at least two of the beefy burgers every single day for more than five decades, but miraculously he still isn't sick of them - in fact, he intends to continue chowing down on them 'for the rest of his life'.
Don is the don of the Big Mac world and has continued his obsession with the snack since 17 May, 1972, which is the date he made his initial visit to the local McDonald's branch in his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
He said it was the first place he went after getting a new car, so to celebrate, he ordered and ate three Big Macs for lunch.
The retired prison guard liked the burgers so much, that he went back twice more in the same day to stuff another six down himself - and the rest, is history.
"In that moment, I said: 'I'm going to probably eat these for the rest of my life'," he recalled. "I threw the cartons in the back seat and started counting them from day one."
Guinness World Record
Don has kept a long running tally of how many Big Macs he has eaten over the years, keeping every single container and receipt as evidence towards his bid to outdo his own Guinness World Record.
At the height of his Big Mac obsession, he would gobble up to nine of them per day.
The pensioner first gained recognition in the record books for the Most Big Mac Burgers Eaten In a Lifetime back in 1999, before hitting the 25,000 mark in 2011 and then 32,340 in 2022.
Don then managed to pack away a whopping 728 of the burgers last year alone, which has now brought his grand total up to a staggering 34,128.
Talking about his latest achievement with officials from Guinness World Record's, he said: "When I like something, I stick with it all the time. Many people thought I'd be dead by now."
But he has taken precautions throughout his food challenge to keep his health in check - he walks six miles a day, skips breakfasts, doesn't get sides and only snacks on ice cream, fruit bars or potato chips on an evening.
Don has kept a long running tally of how many Big Macs he has eaten over the years, keeping every single container and receipt as evidence towards his bid to outdo his own Guinness World Record.
At the height of his Big Mac obsession, he would gobble up to nine of them per day.
The pensioner first gained recognition in the record books for the Most Big Mac Burgers Eaten In a Lifetime back in 1999, before hitting the 25,000 mark in 2011 and then 32,340 in 2022.
Don then managed to pack away a whopping 728 of the burgers last year alone, which has now brought his grand total up to a staggering 34,128.
Talking about his latest achievement with officials from Guinness World Record's, he said: "When I like something, I stick with it all the time. Many people thought I'd be dead by now."
But he has taken precautions throughout his food challenge to keep his health in check - he walks six miles a day, skips breakfasts, doesn't get sides and only snacks on ice cream, fruit bars or potato chips on an evening.
Guinness World Record
"I’m blessed with a high metabolism and good health which allow me to eat Big Macs without gaining a lot of weight," he continued.
"I might be the only person alive who could eat Big Macs every day without ill effects for 50 years."
Don is obviously a bit of a celebrity at his local McDonald's branch in the US, and a portrait of him even hangs inside to commemorate his dedication to Big Macs.
He even proposed to his wife Mary in the car park there - who he thanked for 'putting up with a lot of obsessive compulsive things he does' and not letting his 'Big Mac thing get to her'.
The former prison guard has only gone eight days without eating one in the last 52 years and is now vying to hit the 40,000 mark - which he reckons could 'take him another 14 years or whatever'.
Asked whether he had any advice for people looking to take his world record title, Don comically said: "Don’t. I’ll be dead before you could even challenge it."Featured Image Credit: Guinness World Records
"I’m blessed with a high metabolism and good health which allow me to eat Big Macs without gaining a lot of weight," he continued.
"I might be the only person alive who could eat Big Macs every day without ill effects for 50 years."
Don is obviously a bit of a celebrity at his local McDonald's branch in the US, and a portrait of him even hangs inside to commemorate his dedication to Big Macs.
He even proposed to his wife Mary in the car park there - who he thanked for 'putting up with a lot of obsessive compulsive things he does' and not letting his 'Big Mac thing get to her'.
The former prison guard has only gone eight days without eating one in the last 52 years and is now vying to hit the 40,000 mark - which he reckons could 'take him another 14 years or whatever'.
Asked whether he had any advice for people looking to take his world record title, Don comically said: "Don’t. I’ll be dead before you could even challenge it."Featured Image Credit: Guinness World Records
Published 14:26 2 Feb 2024 GMT
Man who has lived inside iron lung for more than 70 years relives harrowing moment machine stopped working
Paul Alexander has lived in an iron lung for most of his life
A man living inside an iron lung has recalled the terrifying moment he faced when the machine stopped working.
Paul Alexander, from Dallas, Texas, has used a huge tank respirator since contracting polio at just six-years-old, with the machine pulling air in and out of his lungs to stimulate breathing.
Paul contracted polio in his childhood - after playing outdoors with his brother, he began to suffer with aches in his muscles and developed a fever, as well as fatigue.
He was left paralysed from the neck down and unable to breathe on his own again - leading to him being placed in an iron lung.
The illness has left him dependent on the machine, with the 78-year-old having spent most of his life inside the iron lung.
In more recent times, Paul has become a huge personality on TikTok, with his account now running a new series called 'Convos with Paul!', which allows his followers to ask any burning questions they might have.
Speaking on his TikTok account, Paul recently responded to a question that asked him: "What happens when the iron lung stops working or when the power goes out?"
Man who has lived inside iron lung for more than 70 years relives harrowing moment machine stopped working
Paul Alexander has lived in an iron lung for most of his life
A man living inside an iron lung has recalled the terrifying moment he faced when the machine stopped working.
Paul Alexander, from Dallas, Texas, has used a huge tank respirator since contracting polio at just six-years-old, with the machine pulling air in and out of his lungs to stimulate breathing.
Paul contracted polio in his childhood - after playing outdoors with his brother, he began to suffer with aches in his muscles and developed a fever, as well as fatigue.
He was left paralysed from the neck down and unable to breathe on his own again - leading to him being placed in an iron lung.
The illness has left him dependent on the machine, with the 78-year-old having spent most of his life inside the iron lung.
In more recent times, Paul has become a huge personality on TikTok, with his account now running a new series called 'Convos with Paul!', which allows his followers to ask any burning questions they might have.
Speaking on his TikTok account, Paul recently responded to a question that asked him: "What happens when the iron lung stops working or when the power goes out?"
WFAASpeaking from his usual horizontal position in the machine, he explained: "Say the electricity goes out, bad storm ...no electricity. Without electricity the iron lung doesn't work, because it's all run by electric pulses.
"So if the electricity goes out, it stops and I stop breathing."
He continued: "It's a defining moment because to me that's life or death. If it doesn't start back up, it's death because I can't breathe very long on my own without the iron lung."
Continuing his answer the TikTok question, he then recalled one moment where the machine almost failed and left his life hanging in the balance.
He told his TikTok viewers: "I've had my attendant and Kathy before in the middle of the night come running in the dark with no electricity, no lights but came running over to me leaned over and put her lips on mine and blew air into my lungs. She was a warrior and she saved my life."
Mitch Summers/YouTube
Paul regularly answers questions from those curious about his unique life, including one common one which is whether or not Paul can ever get out of the iron lung.
Opening up on the aim of his social media account, Paul previously told his followers: "I want to talk to the world about polio and the millions of children not protected against polio.They have to be before there is another epidemic."
Despite living inside the metal contraption, Paul has still lived a full life.
He passed high school and went on to acquire two law degrees, wrote a book about his life, and spent years practising law and running his legal practice from a specially modified wheelchair.Featured Image
Updated 12:16 19 Jun 2024 GMT+1Published 12:02 19 Jun 2024 GMT+1
Man tries to open 'one of the most dangerous objects in world' in Chernobyl to see what happens
If you swallowed it you'd be very, VERY dead
A man who visited the Chernobyl exclusion zone came up close to one of the most dangerous objects in the world, and then his guide tried to open it.
YouTuber Abandoned Explorer visited Chernobyl in 2019 and was shown around the exclusion zone which was open to tourists back before the days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
This place is a warzone now, but before that people could visit the area surrounding the infamous nuclear power and see some of the life-threatening things left behind.
During the trip, his tour guide Igor popped off to fetch 'one of the most radioactive objects in Pripyat', and returned with a canister of polonium.
Igor joked to the YouTuber that 'you are Litvinenko today', referring to the former Russian spy who was assassinated by being poisoned by the radioactive material they were now getting up close and personal with.
Paul regularly answers questions from those curious about his unique life, including one common one which is whether or not Paul can ever get out of the iron lung.
Opening up on the aim of his social media account, Paul previously told his followers: "I want to talk to the world about polio and the millions of children not protected against polio.They have to be before there is another epidemic."
Despite living inside the metal contraption, Paul has still lived a full life.
He passed high school and went on to acquire two law degrees, wrote a book about his life, and spent years practising law and running his legal practice from a specially modified wheelchair.Featured Image
Updated 12:16 19 Jun 2024 GMT+1Published 12:02 19 Jun 2024 GMT+1
Man tries to open 'one of the most dangerous objects in world' in Chernobyl to see what happens
If you swallowed it you'd be very, VERY dead
A man who visited the Chernobyl exclusion zone came up close to one of the most dangerous objects in the world, and then his guide tried to open it.
YouTuber Abandoned Explorer visited Chernobyl in 2019 and was shown around the exclusion zone which was open to tourists back before the days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
This place is a warzone now, but before that people could visit the area surrounding the infamous nuclear power and see some of the life-threatening things left behind.
During the trip, his tour guide Igor popped off to fetch 'one of the most radioactive objects in Pripyat', and returned with a canister of polonium.
Igor joked to the YouTuber that 'you are Litvinenko today', referring to the former Russian spy who was assassinated by being poisoned by the radioactive material they were now getting up close and personal with.
It's probably best not to open it. (YouTube / Abandoned Explorer)The man started prying open the canister, which many would consider inadvisable especially with bare hands.
Taking out a device to record the radiation, it read that they'd absorbed the amount of five microsieverts thus far in the day.
In most parts of the world, the background radiation is somewhere between 0.17 and 0.39 microsieverts per hour, so the background radiation in the exclusion zone is higher than the rest of the world, which is unsurprising.
However, when the device was placed atop the highly radioactive material, it quickly started counting up and was double the original total within a matter of seconds.
Pretty much every second added on another microsievert, meaning that each second it was picking up the equivalent of several hours of background radiation in a normal part of the world.
"Holy f**kballs," the explorer exclaimed, and that's a fairly reasonable response since that figure kept climbing and essentially would forever as it was emitting several days worth of safe radiation exposure within a few seconds.
It was emitting a huge amount of radiation within seconds, but luckily it doesn't go through skin. (YouTube / Abandoned Explorer)
If you'll remember our old friend the radioactive crane that was giving off 39.8 microsieverts per hour, the polonium was giving off that amount in basically a minute or so.
Put simply this thing was really radioactive and the measuring device started to emit a high-pitched screech in warning.
Once they moved back they checked the device, which said it had registered a total of 99 microsieverts, so in just a short time it had gone from five to 99 just from being near the polonium.
Here's the good news, polonium is pretty harmless outside the body as the radiation cannot get through human skin - unless there is broken skin - and can be stopped by something as simple as paper.
However, ingesting it would be pretty much lethal and one gram of the stuff would be poisonous enough to kill about 50 million people.
If you'll remember our old friend the radioactive crane that was giving off 39.8 microsieverts per hour, the polonium was giving off that amount in basically a minute or so.
Put simply this thing was really radioactive and the measuring device started to emit a high-pitched screech in warning.
Once they moved back they checked the device, which said it had registered a total of 99 microsieverts, so in just a short time it had gone from five to 99 just from being near the polonium.
Here's the good news, polonium is pretty harmless outside the body as the radiation cannot get through human skin - unless there is broken skin - and can be stopped by something as simple as paper.
However, ingesting it would be pretty much lethal and one gram of the stuff would be poisonous enough to kill about 50 million people.
