Who is the skeleton man in born this way

RIP Zombie Boy. I beg of you. Ur not alone. The poem is evident of the pain that the artist must have been enduring in his last days before finally succumbing. The Canadian model told Mirror in an interview that he had been diagnosed with brain tumour at an early age. Though the operation to remove the tumour went without a hitch, the incident made Genest aware of the fleeting quality of life.

A Facebook account appearing to belong to Genest hinted at depression in a recent post. The May post shows a photo of Genest sitting in a hospital bed, wearing the Kill Me shirt that he often wore for interviews and photos with a tongue depressor hanging from his mouth.

In a TedX talk last year, titled Normal is an Illusion, Genest described growing up in a small town in Quebec that was riddled with political and racial issues. As a teenager, he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Doctors warned him that the surgery to remove the tumour would leave his face disfigured for life. After a six-month wait for the surgery, doctors presented him with another option; a new laser technology that would leave his face intact but which was a gamble, as it had only been carried out successfully on one other person in North America.

It was around that time that his tattoos began to multiply. Eventually he met tattoo artist Frank Lewis. The pair devised a theme of a rotting corpse to blend his many tattoos into a tattoo that would cover his whole body, with blackened eye sockets, flesh withering off bones and cockroaches crawling up his neck.

Rick Genest was known internationally as "Zombie Boy". He was bloody and unresponsive. Rick Genest modelled for French designer Thierry Mugler in You can also get help at the BBC Advice pages.

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