Jenya Bolotov, 26, has had both of his ear lobes, his nostrils, septum and his top and bottom lip stretched to over nine and a half inches altogether.
"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"
He is also the only person in the world to have his ‘Surna’ – the very top bridge of his nose – stretched.
And the designer says he won’t stop gouging his body until he realises his vision of becoming a duckbilled platypus.
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Jenya told** News Dog Media**: “I love platypus - the way they look and even the word ‘platypus’ itself.
"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."
At nineteen, Jenya started the slow and painful process of stretching his own top and bottom lip to attain this appearance.
He also stretched both his nostrils and septum to create that elongated, billed look.
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Seven years later, he has finally achieved a permanent, stretched size of 58mm on his bottom lip and 33mm on his top lip. And he plans on steadily increasing these throughout his life.
Jenya, who admits he always felt like an outsider as a child, explained: “It has taken me years to get to where I am and now, I feel like I finally belong in this world.
“Externally, I am now a platypus. My resemblance is the way I want it to be.
“Inside though, I am more like a bird. They’re my spirit animal and they come to me in my dreams.”
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He added: “Not everyone is free like me – they have an internal battle inside them that makes them feel like they can’t become who they want to be.
“It takes bravery to do what I’ve done and I will keep modifying my body until I am happy.”
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