She’s been dubbed the world’s first amputee pop artist: at the age of 20, Viktoria Modesta asked doctors to remove her lower left leg, which had been the source of health problems since birth.
Instead of holding her back, her disability has helped her achieve success.
Launched last December, the music video for her song ‘Prototype’ has already clocked up close to 5 million views on Youtube.
“I think it was really, really important for us to really get it out there and really get people talking, and get people reacting and kind of start a debate, I think,” says the 26-year old pop star.
Due to doctor’s negligence at her birth in February 1987 in her native Latvia, the bionic pop star’s leg stopped growing. She underwent 15 operations between the ages of 6 and 12, and eventually decided to have it amputated to gain mobility.
“She left her country and came to London at a very early age, integrated herself with fetish club scenes, with the night life scene in London, you know,
