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 Rick Genest is a catwalk star, modelling Thierry Mugler's latest collection for Paris Fashion Week.
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.
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| Rick Genest, also known as Zombie Boy, shot to fame when he appeared in the music video for Born This Way with Lady Gaga. |
The self-described 'punk' is a well-known figure in the Quebec city, where he spent three or four years slowly inking his body, spending at least $7,000 on tattoos.
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| Before & After |
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.' Most of his designs were inked by Montreal tattoo artist Frank Lewis, who said Genest first came to him when he was 21.
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