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 ...

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jessica Grose and Meher Ahmad on why plastic surgery and fillers no longer feel like a secret — or a ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

Months after garnering online buzz over her finger piercing in September, the 12-year-old daughter of Kim Kardashian and ...

In the realm of extreme body modifications, few individuals have taken it as far as Michel ‘Diabao’ Praddo. The 49-year-old Brazilian — renowned for his remarkable transformations and known as the ...

They took their attraction to the next level. Body modification enthusiasts Sadie Riendeau and her fiancée Hannah Hansman took the next step in their commitment to each other by getting magnets ...

Body modifications and piercings have been a part of human culture for millennia, serving as rites of passage, symbols of status, or expressions of identity. Piercings hold a special place, with roots ...