23-year-old Man Paid Thousands to Modify His Body

An extreme body artist has taken piercing to a hole new level after creating giant flesh tunnels in hischeeks.

Pictured blowing smoke through his newly acquired modifications, Joel Miggler, 23, from Küssaberg, Germany, began experimenting with body modifications at the tender age of 13.

Since then, he has acquired a grand total of 27 different piercings, as well as six tattoos, an implant and has even had his buttock branded.

His obsession with body modifications first began after stretching his earlobes and has now spent over £4,000 altering his body.

As his piercings became more and more extreme, Mr Miggler eventually had two huge 36mm holes created into the side of his cheeks but plans to eventually stretch them to 40mm.

But despite his extreme look, he insists that his tunnels do not affect his daily life and instead simply takes smaller bites when eating.

Luckily, his mother is very supportive of his decision to change his body, but he does admit that she is not too fond of his cheek tunnels.

It also seems that having huge holes in your cheeks doesn’t create any problems when it comes to his love life and has been dating an artist and body piercer for over six months.

The public’s response to Joel’s bizarre modifications seems to be pleasant overall, apart from a wave of negative response from the online community and social media channels, people either simply stare at him or occasionally stop him to ask questions.

He said: ‘When I walk around on the street, people only stare or sometimes ask me questions if they are interested in my jewellery.

‘It is only on social networks that they mostly discriminate and offend me.