Introducing the man behind the tattoos - Rick Genest, a Canadian model known as Zombie Boy.
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 and becoming the muse of Thierry Mugler and its creative director Nicola Formichetti.
Genest, whose entire head and torso are covered in gory tattoos, seemed to come from nowhere - and it turns out Nicola Formichetti, Gaga's stylist, plucked him from obscurity.
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 Genest is a catwalk star, modelling Thierry Mugler's latest collection for Paris Fashion Week.
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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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