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Usually folks need their scars to fade, however for Keith Edwards he needed medical doctors to create extra scars on his physique.
In an episode of Botched – which you’ll watch free of charge on 9Now – Keith visited plastic surgeons Dr Terry Dubrow and Dr Paul Nassif within the hopes that they’d help him together with his want for extra physique modifications.
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“I’m actually intimidated by Dr Dubrow and Dr Nassif because of what they do for a living, they repair scars and I want scars there,” Keith, who calls himself the “walking canvas”, informed cameras.
“But it doesn’t hurt to ask.”
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The 31-year-old baker has “over 1000 tattoos and counting”, together with his eyeballs which had been injected 21 instances with ink.
“I felt like my eyeballs were about to pop,” he stated of the modification.
Keith’s physique modification journey progressed to piercings and finally to scarification – a course of by the place pores and skin tissue is carved out to create a scar.
“The pain of scarification, it’s excruciating,” Keith admitted. He additionally revealed that he squeezed lemon juice on the open wound to annoy it and make the scar raised.
Most plastic surgeons refuse to carry out the scarification, however in accordance with Keith that is not the craziest half.
“The crazy part is most of the people that I know [that have had scarification done] eat their skin,” he informed Dr Dubrow and Dr Nassif.
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“They’ll carve it out and then swallow it and chew it up.”
While Keith did not essentially wish to eat his pores and skin, he did need the surgeons to make his present scars extra distinguished.
“He didn’t want the scars on his face to heal so perfectly,” Kyle’s spouse Leslie clarified.
“He wants something that’s a little more defined, that can be more noticeable.”
The time period is thought within the medical area as hypertrophic scars, that are thick raised scars that individuals usually do not wish to kind.
But clearly Keith is something however the norm.
Keith left Dr Dubrow and Dr Nassif with one closing and really absurd request.
“I want to remove my nipples and my belly button,” Keith requested.
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The request left the surgeons baffled, however Keith defined it by saying he merely needed more room for his physique artwork.
With the process being exterior of the surgeons’ normal realm of experience, they’d have to sit down and contemplate this one.
To see if Dr Dubrow or Dr Nassif agreed to fulfil Keith’s request watch ‘Ep 6 I Should Have Done My Homework’ of Botched on 9Now.
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