A mum-of-two with silicone implants in her face, stretched nostrils and more than 400 tattoos says she's beautiful - despite what society says.
Sarah Anthony Martin, 35, from Denmark, had her first piercing when she was 10 and used a fake ID to get her first tattoo when she was 16.
Now a licensed body piercing expert, she is encouraging others to make whatever modifications they want to their bodies and ditch modern beauty standards.
Sarah said: "I've now been body piercing for almost 20 years, and I've probably been pierced about 400 times. I get some piercings, and enjoy them for a while, and then get a new idea and take them out.
"I've had my nostrils punched and stretched to almost 13mm, had my lip stretched, and I have six subdermal implants. I had more, but this is what I have just now.
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"Some of the things can be quite uncomfortable, but a lot of it isn't necessarily painful when you're getting it done only afterwards.
"I think one of the most uncomfortable procedures was when I got scarification on my face. It wasn't very pleasant because I had to be quiet and lay really still, so it was difficult to manage my breathing."
Of all her modifications, Sarah's favourite touch is a silicone barbell implant on her hand.
"It symbolises my work and my passion, how I'm proud of my job. This is how I pay my bills and support my family. I was always told that you can't do that as a body piercer, so this implant symbolises all the things I love about what I do," she said.
Sarah recalls being mesmerised by tattoos from a young age after looking at her great-grandad's sailor artwork on his arms.
But she says her family hasn't always been supportive of her decisions - with her mother expressing concern when she had her hands tattooed in her 20s.
However, her family came around to her body art, and Sarah now gets a new ink every time she meets someone who makes an impact on her.
Describing herself as a "human picture book" she tells her children Sailor, nine and Rebel, six, all about where each of her modifications has come from.
She said: "My children think nothing of it. My appearance was the first thing they saw, so it's not something we discuss a lot.
"My water actually broke with Sailor in the piercing shop, so they've always been around this."
While the mum has to put up with nasty comments about her appearance suggesting she'll never get married, she brushes them off and embraces her look.
She said: "As a woman, there's a huge pressure to look a certain way, and your worth is measured by how well you fit into a stereotype.
"If you don't fit, you're not considered good enough. People think that what I'm doing is radical, but it isn't.
"At least, it shouldn't be radical to do something as natural as living the life you see fit."
After years of feeling uncomfortable in her body, Sarah says she's finally in a position to love what she sees in the mirror and she won't let anyone else bring her down.
She said: "I'm no less of a woman or a person because I don't fit into a certain beauty standard. I want to reach people with the message that they can get piercings and still have a career and a family and be a good person.
