Carolyn Thomas
Maria José Cristerna, The Mexican Vampire Woman.
Hard to look at for some and impossible not to stare for others.
Marias family is a deeply Catholic. She went to a Catholic shool, fell in love and got married when she was only seventeen. She wanted to make things right. She says relationship didn't work. Following devastating and systematic episodes of abuse from her ex-husband, she decided to turn her life around, reinvent herself and become the vampire woman.
Every piercing and tattoo of her body tells a story of her life. Modification tells a part of her story, of the things she did. She is a human art and her voice want to reach other women with some kind of problem. She said '' I want to reach other mistreated women and empower them to not take abuse fram anyone.'' Maria sees herself as a normal person with four children.
“I am a normal stay at home mom, a woman also dedicated to tattooing, body art, I do suspension shows, but at the same time I try to help and empower other women who have been abused, because I come from domestic abuse” she says.
She got her first piercing at age twelve, her first tattoo at fourteen, and hasn't stopped her. She has stopped counting long ago how many tattoos and other body modifications she has had “about 95% of her body, the left over space is for like, fillers, backgrounds, you know? Like a canvas painting...” She has tattoos all over, multiple piercings where even the most daring would only think to put one, her ears are gauged, and she even has titanium implants in her forehead simulating horns. these were done without anesthetics, and she says she wants a couple more, on the back of her head.
Maria José Cristerna is a strong woman with a dark bakground. I can understand her at the same time I can't? Why do implants in her forehead look like horns? Why a vampire? How can this help her to be a better person? Perheps this help her mental I don't know. Good for her that she is so strong and can take comments from other people.
Marias family is a deeply Catholic. She went to a Catholic shool, fell in love and got married when she was only seventeen. She wanted to make things right. She says relationship didn't work. Following devastating and systematic episodes of abuse from her ex-husband, she decided to turn her life around, reinvent herself and become the vampire woman.
Every piercing and tattoo of her body tells a story of her life. Modification tells a part of her story, of the things she did. She is a human art and her voice want to reach other women with some kind of problem. She said '' I want to reach other mistreated women and empower them to not take abuse fram anyone.'' Maria sees herself as a normal person with four children.
“I am a normal stay at home mom, a woman also dedicated to tattooing, body art, I do suspension shows, but at the same time I try to help and empower other women who have been abused, because I come from domestic abuse” she says.
She got her first piercing at age twelve, her first tattoo at fourteen, and hasn't stopped her. She has stopped counting long ago how many tattoos and other body modifications she has had “about 95% of her body, the left over space is for like, fillers, backgrounds, you know? Like a canvas painting...” She has tattoos all over, multiple piercings where even the most daring would only think to put one, her ears are gauged, and she even has titanium implants in her forehead simulating horns. these were done without anesthetics, and she says she wants a couple more, on the back of her head.
Maria José Cristerna is a strong woman with a dark bakground. I can understand her at the same time I can't? Why do implants in her forehead look like horns? Why a vampire? How can this help her to be a better person? Perheps this help her mental I don't know. Good for her that she is so strong and can take comments from other people.
