Who would believe that these good-looking, gorgeous men were actually women before living a life as men.

First is Balian Buschbaum. He was once Yvonne Buschbaum, a former German pole vaulter.

Before:


After:

Kimberly Ann Sallans was the former name of Ryan Sallans. Look at how he has changed with his gender transformation.

Before:

After photo:

American photographer, author and transsexual activist, Loren Rex Cameron, looks very manly after his gender transformation. I do not have a “before” photo of Loren, but the one below is proof of his desire to become a man.

Just this week, the Guinness World Records crowned the new World’s Shortest Man in the person of Filipino Junrey Balawing. He took over the title from Nepalese Khagendra Thapa Magar. Balawing, 18 years old, measured 23.5 inches (60 centimeters). The previous record was 26.4 inches (67 centimeters).


Balawing stopped growing two months after his birth, his father said, adding that he first walked with help from his parents when he was 5 years old.

[source: Guinness World Records]

As I am writing this, false prophet Harold Camping just failed to predict that the world will end on May 21, 2011. But this prediction of doomsday has been lingering for years and there were already so many people and groups who gave predictions but failed. I am sure there are still more to come out to scare all of us of the Judgment Day!

Pat Robertson
In May 1980, Pat Robertson, a media mogul, televangelist, and Christian Coalition founder, astonished and bewildered many by announcing that he could guarantee that by the end of 1982 there was going to be a judgment on the world.


Heaven’s Gate
In 1997 rumors arose that an alien spacecraft was following the comet Hale-Bopp but it was kept a secret by NASA. Though the claim was refuted by astronomers, a San Diego UFO cult named Heaven’s Gate was convinced that the world would end soon and 39 of the cult members committed suicide in the same year. The body of Marshall Applewhite, who was the leader of the cult, was found among the dead.

Michel de Nostrdame, July 1999
Nostrdame has enchanted many for over 400 years. His writings have been translated and retranslated in dozens of different versions. Many Nostradamus followers believed that in the seventh month of year 1999, a great king of terror will come from the sky.

Ronald Weinland, 2008
Ronald Weinland, God’s Church minister stated that “by the fall of 2008, the United States will have collapsed as a world power and no longer exist as an independent nation.” in his book, 2008: God’s Final Witness.

Harold Camping, May 21, 2011
Camping is president of religion-based Family Radio Worldwide of Oakland, California. He uses mathematical predictions applied to the Bible to predict dates for the end of the world. The most recent end time prediction is that the Rapture will be on May 21, 2011 and that God will completely destroy the Earth and the universe five months later on October 21.

Mary Stewart Relfe
Mary Stewart Relfe wrote in 1983 that she had been praying to ” know the year” of the Lord’s coming, and that subsequently she receied detailed “divine revelations” from God. She relaeased a chart showing World War III beginning in 1989, the Great Tribulation starting in 1990, and that Jesus Christ will come back in 1997, just after Armaggeddon.”

Vladimir Solovyev
Vladimir Solovyev, eminent Russian theologian, foretold that in an upcoming war Japanese would win and conquer much of the world, but be defeated by the Europeans in the end. A brilliant writer and thinker would then arise and unite the world and especially all religious leaders. Then the Jews would accept him as the Messiah but only until they learn that he is not a Jew, which will result in the revolt in Jerusalem and the eruption of a volcano from the Dead Sea.

Doug Clark
Prophecy teacher Doug Clark published his new book in 1976 and claimed “The death of the United States and the birth of one world government under President Carter.” He announced that President Jimmy Carter would be “the president who will meet Mr. 666, the Antichrist, soon.”

It is not only celebrities and famous people who get so many plastic surgeries or cosmetic procedures in their lifetime. Even ordinary people do. A lady from Ohio, Cindy Jackson, now 55, undergone 14 full-scale operations. In total she has had 52 cosmetic procedures, a world record for the most procedures ever undergone by one person.

Do you know any other women who have had so many plastic surgeries?

Jocelyn Wildenstein – She is reported to have spent £2million on cosmetic surgery to keep her husband, but succeeded only in ruining the good looks she was born with. See the transformation below. She is now in her 60s.

Heidi Montag also had a number of plastic surgery procedures. She had her breast implants increased to DDDs, a brow lift, a nose job revision, lipo on her stomach and thighs and a butt augmentation, among other things.

Pamela Anderson is one of the Hollywood stars who is vocal about her plastic surgery procedures.

Singer Dolly Parton defends her need to look good for her fans with plastic surgery! How many times do you think did she have gone through the knife?

And here is Cindy Jackson. She had 14 actual operations (5 full face lifts, lots of liposuction, 2 eye lifts, chin reduction, lip implants, multiple boob jobs, nose job, cheek implants). The rest of the 38 cosmetic procedures are less invasive injectables (Botox and fillers), chemical peels, cosmetic dentistry and semi-permanent makeup. Recently, Cindy Jackson had her hands injected with filler in an attempt to hide the veins and make them appear younger.

Video: Cindy Jackson

New cigarette warning labels proposed by the FDA does not only include words but some pretty graphic images of the tragic results of smoking.

Will these tobacco labels stop you from smoking?

He is called Oscar, the 31-year-old Spanish guy who recently had a successful full face transplant. Oscar has been described as a farmer who was unable to breathe or eat on his own after accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.

Today, the world’s first full face transplant patient has made his first public appearance.

Full Face Transplant pictures of Spanish guy named Oscar:

Before and After Pictures:

[source: yahoo]

These are real x-ray pictures of objects inside a body. You may ask how these objects were able to get inside…

A nail?


One scary knife inside the head.

One nail is already scary. But three?

One hungry fellow eating a key.

Footbinding, literally “bound feet”, was an early form of cosmetic surgery practiced on young females for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the early 20th century. In Chinese foot binding, young girls’ feet, usually at age 6 but often earlier, were wrapped in tight bandages so that they could not grow and develop normally; they would, instead, break and become highly deformed, not growing past 4-6 inches (10-15 cm).


As the girl reached adulthood, her feet would remain small and dysfunctional, prone to infection, paralysis, and muscular atrophy. Footbinding was initially a common practice only in the wealthiest parts of China, particularly in areas around northern China. However, by the late Qing Dynasty, foot binding had become popular among people of all social classes except the poorest, who needed able-bodied women to work the fields. Today, footbinding is a prominent cause of disability among some elderly Chinese women.

Just few days ago, a TV news channel reported the birth of a baby at Franciscan Skemp Medical Center in La Crosse. Chuck Berendes and his wife were surprised to know that their baby was born at exactly 9:09 on 9/9/09 and weighs 9 lbs, 9 ounces.

Are there other babies born in same-number combination?

Meet Xander Riniker, born at 8:08 a.m. on August 8, 2008 and weighs 8 pounds, 8 ounces. Xander was born at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.


Robert Purvis III came into the world at 7:01 a.m. on Saturday, July 7. He weighs 7 pounds, 7 ounces. Mom Kristi Purvis is in room 7 at St. Joseph Hospital.

Damien Cooper was born on 6/6/06. The mother Suzanne was induced for six days before Damien arrived at 6.59am, tipping the scales at a spine-chilling 6lb 6oz.

Do you know of other baby names? Just leave a comment below.

The following is a list/photos of people with unusual long names. They have received media attention because of their unusual (weird?) long names. The longest name for a person belongs to a German immigrant to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His name is (beat this) :

(First and middle names — representing every letter of the alphabet)
Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvim John Kenneth Loyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor Willian Xerxes Yancy Zeus

(Last name)
Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffvoralternwarengewissenhaftschaf
erswesenchafewarenwholgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeitbeschutzenvonange
reifenduchihrraubgiriigfeindewelchevorralternzwolftausendjahresvorand
ieerscheinenbanderersteerdeemmeshedrraumschiffgebrauchlichtalssein
ursprungvonkraftgestartseinlangefahrthinzwischensternartigraumaufde
rsuchenachdiesternwelshegehabtbewohnbarplanetenkreisedrehensichu
ndwohinderneurassevanverstandigmenshlichkeittkonntevortpflanzenund
sicherfreunanlebenslamdlichfreudeundruhemitnichteinfurchtvorangreifen
vonandererintlligentgeschopfsvonhinzwischensternartigraum

He later shortened it to Mr. Hubert Wolfe, although there are times that he used the name Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.

Here are the rest of them with strange long names:
1. Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi (short version: Alexander Siddig) Sudanese-born English actor, also known as Siddig El Fadil and Alexander Siddig.

2. Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright – is an English celebrity chef who is best known as one half, along with Jennifer Paterson, of the Two Fat Ladies.

3. Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa Geldof (short version: Peaches Geldof) – is an English socialite and occasional broadcaster.

4. Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown — an American child born in 2007

5. Louis George Maurice Adolphe Roche Albert Abel Antonio Alexandre Noë Jean Lucien Daniel Eugène Joseph-le-brun Joseph-Barême Thomas Thomas Thomas-Thomas Pierre Arbon Pierre-Maurel Barthélemi Artus Alphonse Bertrand Dieudonné Emanuel Josué Vincent Luc Michel Jules-de-la-plane Jules-Bazin Julio César Jullien (short version: Louis Antoine Jullien) – was a French conductor

6. Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antoguella (short version: Rudolph Valentino) – movie star

7. Anthony Philip David Terry Frank Donald Stanley Gerry Gordon Stephen James Oatway (short version: Charlie Oatway) – an English footballer who was named after all 11 players of a Queens Park Rangers F.C. side.

8. Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo (short version: Dikembe Mutombo) – basketball player for the Houston Rockets

9. Fabiola Fernanda María de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón (Queen Fabiola of Belgium) – the widow of King Baudouin of Belgium. She was Queen consort of the Belgians for 33 years.

Other long names without pictures available online:

Nicholas Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone (short version: Nicholas Barbon) — an English economist, physician and financial speculator

Anna Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora Ophelia Prudence Quince Rebecca Sarah Teresa Ulysis Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeno Pepper, a British woman who was named with a first name in the order of the alphabet. (Nickname: Alphabet)

James Dr No From Russia with Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die The Man with the Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View to a Kill The Living Daylights Licence to Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale Bond — David Fearn, 23, from Walsall, changed his name to the names of every James Bond movie at the time in order to celebrate the release of the latest Bond film.