An Army veteran with a forked tongue and pierced genitals has set a world record for having 99.9% of his body covered in tattoos.
A Connecticut Army veteran has earned two Guinness World Records for tattooing and modifying 99.98% of her body—and she’s still making space for more.
Esperance Lumineska Fuerzina is now officially the most tattooed woman and the woman with the most body modifications ever. Her decade-long project included tattooing her eyeballs and adding scale-like implants to her scalp.
“I’m clearly not trying to fit traditional beauty standards, and while that can be freeing, it’s also something that many people don’t understand and can be negative about,” Fuerzina told Guinness World Records.
Esperance Fuerzina has tattoos that are in extremely delicate and unusual areas of her body like the white outer layer of her eyeballs, her genitals and even her tongue.Gabriel Gurrola/Guiness World Records
The new record holder says her body is like a moving canvas with the theme of “turning darkness into beauty.” Her tattoos cover her tongue, gums, eyeballs, and even her genitals.
But she didn’t stop there. She also has 89 body modifications, including 15 implants under her skin, a forked tongue, removed nipples, and 18 genital piercings.
Her willingness to make extreme changes to her body helped her surpass the previous record holders. She narrowly beat the former record-holder, Charlotte Guttenberg, who had 98.7% of her body tattooed. Fuerzina also set a new record for body modifications, far surpassing the previous record of 40, which had stood since 2012.
The Army veteran got her first tattoo at 21 years old and now 99.98% of Esperance Fuerzina’s body is covered in ink.Gabriel Gurrola/Guiness World Records
The new record holder says she became a title winner by chance. Fuerzina had been decorating and modifying her body for over ten years with memories from her travels and drawings from friends. It wasn’t until a friend suggested she might win a record that she realized she had a chance.
Esperance Fuerzina is seen in high school, years before she got her first tattoo on her hip, which was a symbol linked to a former love interest (that she’s since covered up).Guiness World Records
Fuerzina admitted she was a bit nervous when she first applied for the record. However, she wanted to show the strength of women and what’s possible by applying for it herself.
Her passion for tattoos began at age 21 when she got her first tattoo—a symbol on her hip related to a past relationship, which she later covered up.
The 36-year-old from Connecticut has also received body modifications that include splitting her tongue, receiving five facial implants and getting lots of piercings.Gabriel Gurrola/Guiness World Records
A few years after getting her first tattoo, Fuerzina began body modifications, starting with getting her tongue split.
She mostly designs her own tattoos but also lets her favorite tattoo artists be creative, using her body as a canvas.
