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.
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 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.
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.
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.
