Jenya Bolotov is a Russian designer living in Perm. He is known as "The Human Platypus" because of his piercings and facial modifications.

Bolotov describes himself as a quiet child.

He first became aware of body modifications at the age of ten.

He has said of his early feelings about piercings: "When I saw body piercings for the first time on the internet, I became very interested.

As I got older, I started learning about ear lobe stretching which was still very rare.

I loved the way it looked - the way you could stretch your body to become who you want to be.

It's such a beautiful art."

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Jenya started his piercings at age 18.

He first decided he would stretch his ear lobes himself.

"I had no knowledge of how to do it so I made a lot of mistakes with my earlobes.

But it was the start of my journey," he said.

He became interested in lip stretching after he came across images in African countries and liked them.

That led to his Platypus obsession: "Although I thought they were too small - I wanted my lip holes bigger. I wanted to take this ancient art to the next level. 'Then 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. I loved the large bill of a platypus."

Jenya says of his current look: "Externally, I am now a platypus.

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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