Jasmine Tridevil: Woman with three breast denies surgery hoax claims
SHE made global headlines around the world when she revealed she paid thousand for surgery to get a third breast. But is Jasmine Tridevil fooling the world?
SHE made headlines around the world when she revealed she paid thousands of dollars to get a third breast surgically attached to her chest.
But now Florida woman Jasmine Tridevil is facing claims that the surgery is a fake and she made it all up.
The claims come as an American news channel 10 News revealed Tridevil, who goes by the real name Alisha Jasmine Hessler, had filed an incident report after losing a three breast prosthesis earlier this month.
Tridevil filed the report after her bag was stolen from Tampa International Airport on September 16, with the report also obtained by TMZ.
The luggage, which was stolen, allegedly contained a fake breast and 10 News obtained the report which listed the missing contents including a “3 breasts prothesis”.
However, Tridevil claims she underwent her surgery a few months ago and it cost $20,000.
Internet rumour site Snopes also uncovered her JasmineTridevil.com site is registered to Alisha Hessler, someone who Tridevil bares striking resemblance to.
However when 10 News reporter Charles Bill tracked her down, Tridevil insisted her surgery and third breast were the real deal.
“I figured people would be sceptical, but it’s true. I recorded the surgery and it will be on my show,” she said.
Tridevil insisted the surgery went ahead and she tried 50-60 doctors before she found one willing to perform the surgery.
Surgeons have also dismissed the possibility of it being real.
New York plastic surgeon Matthew Schulman told The Daily Dot: “[I] believe 100 per cent that this is a hoax that everyone is falling for,” he said.
“I would be happy to go on record claiming that this is a falsified story and essentially not possible.”
Michigan surgeon Dr Anthony Youn agreed while the surgery was possible, it was highly unlikely anyone would perform it.
In a YouTube clip Tridevil said the extra breast felt like her other two but that “the only difference is the nipple”, which she had to get tattooed on.
The 21-year-old saved up for two years so she could have the surgery and is also paying for a film crew to follow her around.
She also said her surgery was documented by a film crew and will prove her story is true, The Mirror reported.
Tridevil has received plenty of venom on social media and just hours ago posted “Pain is temporary, glory is forever” from her Facebook page.
Just an hour earlier she wrote: “Don’t be afraid to be different ... that’s what makes you beautiful” and also posted a photo of her pre surgery which won her a host of compliments and questions as to why she would want to change.
“Omg ... I done know what is happening but I'm seriously going viral right now,”
It’s not the first time Ms Hessler has made headlines.
Last year, she chose to publicly humiliate a man who beat her instead of sending him to prison.
She said she was introduced to the man when friends of hers invited him out clubbing last December and he beat her after unwanted sexual advances.
She received hospital treatment and a police report was filed.
But instead of pressing charges she offered her attacker an ultimatum telling him, “I can either press charges and have you arrested for a year, or I can have you sit outside at a busy intersection for 8 hours holding up a sign that says ‘I beat women’.”