A 32-year-old albino man who has over 90% of his body covered in black ink has decided to remove his genitals. Read that sentence. Now read it again.
Adam Curlykale of Kaliningrad, Russia, began tattooing his body with blank ink after being diagnosed with cancer some 12 years ago. Curlykale says he began tattooing his entire body, eyeballs included, because his pale skin depressed him.
After tattooing nearly all the tattoo-able surfaces on his body, Curlykale began to feel as though one appendage didn’t fit in with his vibe; His penis. He traveled to Guadalajara, Mexico, to remove the offending body part along with his testicles and nipples in an extreme, presumably not inexpensive procedure. Curlykale shared the results to his some 28,000 fans on Instagram.
Curlykale first garnered public attention last year when he appeared on “Second Face,” a Polish television program that apparently discusses such things. At the time, he said the tattoos were a way of covering up scars and blemishes left behind by cancer treatment.
Luckily, the self-proclaimed “Oreo” eventually beat cancer, though his weakened immune system left him with a pallid appearance he was ashamed of. When doctors diagnosed him with albinism, he turned towards tattooing as a way to combat his insecurities.