Who will answer what pushes people to such radical modifications of their bodies? Now they even introduced the term bodymod, which comes from the English Body Modification. A person strives to look not like everyone else, perhaps this is his personal freedom of choice. But what is behind this? Mental disorders, desire to stand out, loneliness? It will be a story about a real beast-man who has become a real celebrity all over the world.
Image of a cat
Dennis Avner was a strange and terrible sight: a tattooed body with an imitation of a tiger color, a split lip, sharp extended fangs, special tunnels in the face into which cat whiskers were inserted from plastic, silicone implants on the forehead and cheeks, pointed ears, contact lenses with cat pupils. She completed the look with long claws and a mechanical tail that could move.
Dennis did not stop at just the external transformation, he enjoyed eating raw meat and climbingtrees like a wild cat.
Secret meaning
Dennis Avner was born in 1958 in America, in a family of real Indians, who gave their little son the nickname "a cat that goes after prey." As the man later admitted, he took this information to heart, deciding that this was his true purpose in life and his true essence. And he began to look for a secret meaning from the ancestors of the tribe, completely changing the outer shell. Plastic modifications, coupled with tattoos and piercings, cost him a tidy sum, however, Avner himself never considered the money spent. 33 operations are mentioned that completely changed his face, he even greatly narrowed his eyes, as close as possible to the cats.
Fame
Naturally, after such drastic changes in appearance, the Cat-Man was noticed by the general public. He attracted the attention of everyone, and not always the reactions to him were positive. Someone admired him, but most considered abnormal. Perhaps the goal of Avner, dissatisfied with his former appearance, was achieved this time, he was noticed, they began to invite him to talk shows, and interviewed him. His secret call for attention was heard by an audience of millions.
Dennis Avner before the operation served in the US troops as a locator adjuster, then worked as a programmer, but the desire to transform from a human into a cat was the strongest. In 1985, the first tattoos appear on his body and face. And this was only the beginning of the changes that turned it intoa victim of plastic surgery. His images appear in magazines and the press, Avner is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, invited to shoot TV shows, and even the famous host Larry King once invites him to his show. The popularity is growing, along with it, the fees for performances are increasing, which are spent without a trace on new body modifications.
Loneliness
The crazy idea of becoming a real world-famous cat comes to fruition, but did that make Dennis happy? Most probably not. Having lived to the age of 54, Dennis Avner was completely alone, the peace of mind he dreamed of was absent in the new image. The discomfort that has been present in him since childhood has not gone anywhere. Friends recalled that Cat Man began to get tired from close attention, people asked for an autograph and a joint photo with a strange character. The expression of the true essence did not give him harmony with himself. If it is not inside, then it is simply pointless to look for external tattoos.
The official medical version said that Avner had serious mental problems. His disorder was called dysmorphophobia, which arose from an extreme preoccupation with an imaginary defect in appearance. Feelings about their alleged inferiority resulted in the decision to get rid of all the complexes in such a strange way.
Suicide
At the end of November 2012, the American media spread information that outrageous Dennis Avner had been found dead in his house. The cause of death is suicide. Long before the tragedyhis he alth caused great concern among doctors. The far-reaching experiments of a man who tried to reincarnate as an animal caused him great suffering. The pain from the piercing and constant surgery made his body unusually susceptible to pain. Behind a good-natured smile, a soul suffering from physical and moral torment was hiding.
Fateful mistake
An acquaintance of Avner said that attempts to get used to an unnatural role for him seemed to blur his genetic code laid down by nature. And the happiness that the man so dreamed of turned out to be inaccessible to him. Thoughts of suicide began to haunt him when Dennis Avner realized that he had made the biggest mistake of his life. A year before his suicide, he turned to those who want to use his image, asking them not to forget that he needs to live on something. He added that he needed a job and a home.
"He was a complex but memorable man with many problems," was how they wrote about him after his death. A kind and sociable, but deeply unhappy man, who spent 27 years on reincarnations, tried to accept the essence of an animal in himself, but did not succeed.
