Who's That Zombie Boy? Rick Genest for Thierry Mugler
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Covered in skeletal tattoos to make his body resemble a decomposing corpse, Lady Gaga's latest video co-star probably isn't the kind of man you'd take home to meet your parents.
The mysterious 25-year-old has shot to fame after displaying his macabre body art in Gaga's video for Born This Way. Meet Montreals Rick Genest.
I first saw Rick on Facebook about 6 months ago - since the Gage video, his stardom has exploded.
Genest, whose entire head and torso are covered in gory tattoos, seemed to come from nowhere - and it turns out Nicola Formichetti, Gaga's stylist, quite literally plucked him from obscurity.
Until January he was living on the streets of Montreal, where he was living as a 'bum', doing everything from window-cleaning to performing as a circus freak to pay for his next tattoo.
Now bilingual Genest is a catwalk star, modelling Thierry Mugler's latest collection for Paris Fashion Week.
His mother Catheryne today described her son as a 'quiet, loving boy', who waited until he was 16 to have his first tattoo out of respect for his parents.
In 2006, he told Bizarre magazine his tattoos were 'about the human body as a decomposing corpse – the art of a rotting cadaver. It’s also a tribute to horror movies, which I love.' He has a lot of fans on his Facebook page - where Formichetti, Thierry Mugler's new creative director, first found him - and is a popular figure in the city's underground scene. Despite his unconventional lifestyle, his mother said she is proud of her son - and he always replies to her text messages, even now he is leading a glamorous life on the catwalks of Europe. His mother said: 'He's doing what he wants to do. He's always been a very artistic person and a good student - he's so artistic.
Genest is entirely tattooed from the waist up. UNLIKE Logan McCree, who beautifully covered his ENTIRE BODY and penis.
But Genest is not done yet. He wants to extend his gruesome body art down his legs, too - and in an interview in January said he had even had his tongue slit, to make him look like a reptile.
Genest is not as outlandish as some I have seen. WHY? I ask myself?!
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