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A 22-year-old man from Los Angeles, California, in the US has spent £40 000 (R760 000) on plastic surgery to become an alien – and he could soon have his genitalia removed.
Vinny Ohh, a makeup artist and part-time model, has had 110 procedures to transform into a genderless extraterrestrial.
The young man believes he’s neither male nor female and says his extreme look is a way of mirroring how he feels on the inside.
“The overall image I’m going for is the look of an alien. I want to be a hybrid – not male or female,” he said.
Vinny started with lip fillers at the age of 17, and has since had two rhinoplasties and multiple cheek and brow bone fillers.
“I’ve wanted to be genderless since I was 17 and I’ve been going to doctors to see if it’s possible, but had no luck. I do kind of look like a Martian – I have a really big head and no eyebrows and I’ve just been connecting with that.”
He also wears large blackened contact lenses, alien-like talons and dyes his hair in unusual colours.
Vinny says he always felt as if he was an outcast growing up and that’s one of the main reasons he started with the cosmetic procedures. He became an LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) activist and feels as if his look now represents his belief that people shouldn’t be labelled.
“Over the years, I’ve realised I’m not gay, bi, trans or any of these things. I just want to be me. I do it to inspire the world in a certain way. I want people to stop labelling others or putting them in boxes,” he explained.
Now Vinny plans to fork out another £130 000 (R2,4 million) on surgery to have his genitalia, nipples and belly button removed.
“I don’t see why I shouldn’t have my genitals completely removed and have nothing down there,” he says.
“When people ask me how I’d label myself, I tell them an ‘extraterrestrial, hot mess, self-obsessed’ – it’s becoming my slogan.”
When out in public he draws much attention, which he believes is down to his unusual standout features and dress sense.
“I don’t look real and people love it. People have said they want their kids to be like me and that I’m an inspiration for children who don’t feel as if they belong,” he said.
“Other times I’ve had shopping carts chucked at me or I’ve been considered a sexual object by men and woman. I’m used to not fitting in.”
Vinny is set to appear on Plastics of Hollywood, a reality series to be released in America that will follow 12 plastic-surgery addicts as they try to carve out careers despite their extreme looks.
Source: Magazine Features
