Tiamat Legion Medusa has spent at least £61,000 on cosmetic surgery and body modification. But we’re not talking about your average obsession with boob jobs or tummy tucks. Tiamat has spent her money on castration, ear removal, and tongue splitting, all to become a genderless reptile. There are still many procedures to go, as Tiamat plans to have a penis removal along with further tattoos.

Axar.az reports citing Metro that they hope to show a positive representation of people who have undergone body modification surgery. ‘People think that modified people, especially those who go to great extremes to look like something in a sci-fi film, are losers and dumb as dirt,’ says Tiamat. ‘In my past life as a man, I was a banking Vice President at one of the nation’s largest financial institutions.

‘I want people to know that modified people are just as intelligent, kind, loving, and good as anyone else. ‘Just because I had my ears removed, does not mean my brain just rolled out and I’m just a blithering idiot.’ Born Richard Hernandez, Tiamat had a tough upbringing. ‘When I was five years old I was being physically and verbally abused by my stepfather,’ they say. ‘I was eventually abandoned by my parents in the middle of the woods, at night, deep in the heart of South Texas, where the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake abounds. ‘It was then, when my human parents shoved me out of the car to leave me there like unwanted trash that I adopted the venomous rattler as my parents.

The transformation has involved 18 horn implants, the remove of both ears, a partial nose removal and reshaping inspired by Voldemort, the removal of 32 teeth, the sharpening of six teeth to points, staining the whites of the eyes green, and splitting Tiamat’s tongue into a forked shape.