Maria José Cristerna

Maria José Cristerna

María José Cristerna (* 1976 in Jalisco ) is a Mexican lawyer, entrepreneur, activist, freak artist and professional tattoo artist; she is also known as the Vampire Woman or the Jaguar Woman . It is entered in the Guinness Book of Records under “Most body modifications (female)” .

Life

María José Cristerna was born in 1976 in the state of Jalisco, Guadalajara (Mexico). She grew up in a religious family. After graduating from high school, she studied law and became a lawyer. Their modifications include forked tongue, subcutaneous implants, tattoos, pyrisins, ear augmentations, ocular tattoos, scarifications, dental implants. In addition to her work as a lawyer, she is an entrepreneur and owns her own tattoo studio and boutique, in which she sells her own clothing line “Mujeres vampiro” (Vampire Women).

"That's not how you imagine a lawyer: Mary José Cristerna is a star in Latin America, the mother of four children - and she stands up for victims of marital violence."

- Yolanda Di Mambro

In April 2017 she appeared as a star guest at the "Wildstyle & Tattoo Fair" in Austria and visited studios in Innsbruck, Vienna and Salzburg with other artists.

literature

• Margot Mifflin: Bodies of Subversion. A secret history of women and tattoo. 3rd edition powerHouse Books, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-57687-692-3 , p. 150.
• Darian Meacham: Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Springer 2015, ISBN 978-94-017-9870-9 , p. 304 (reading sample: books.google.de ).
• Guinness World Records 2016. Guinness World Records 2015, ISBN 978-1-910561-03-4 ( books.google.de ).

Web links

• María José Cristerna in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ guinnessworldrecords.com: Maria Jose Cristerna Most body modifications (female)
2. ↑ Yolanda Di Mambro: “I am more of a warrior than a vampire woman” In: 20min.ch of January 31, 2012.
3. ↑ Monika Dlugokecki: An (almost) normal housewife !? In: woman.at on March 23, 2017.