How Jasmin Tridevil made the world believe she was a triple-breasted woman
Somebody call Busted because their weird sex dreams have come true just under a century early. There really are women with a third boob hanging around, and they’re not even swimming around town, either. At least not yet, but give it a few decades, and anything could happen.
A generation of boys had their minds broken by the Total Recall scene in which Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Douglas Quaid is propositioned by a mutant prostitute with three boobs. It was just the right mix of profoundly weird and strangely titillating to become absolute catnip for a certain breed of movie-goer. However, there is something profoundly off-putting about it. Except to some people, that’s exactly the appeal.
So, when a photo was posted online of a woman who’d claimed to have a third breast surgically implanted onto her chest, which cost $20,000, it quickly went viral. People were desperate to know if it was legit and if it was, where this woman of three mammaries could be found. Y’know, for research purposes. The woman in question was named Jasmin Tridevil, which was the first sign that this was “two good” to be true. “Tridevil”? Try hard, more like.
Yeah, it turns out if you searched “JasminTridevil.com” you instead found the website for a Florida based Masseuse called Alisha Hessler, someone who claimed right off the bat that she was a “provider of internet hoaxes”.
Not a great start, all things considered, especially when you looked into the first time she was in the news, when she convinced a stranger to stand on a busy street corner holding a sign saying “I beat women, honk if I’m a scumbag”.
So, right from the off, this was coming from someone whose whole gimmick seemed to be pulling stunts to shock people. The smoking gun came from TMZ, who reported in 2014 that Hessler had a bag of hers stolen from baggage collection at Tampa International Airport. When she reported what was in said bag, she said the most valuable item in it was a three-breasted chest prosthetic. One valued at $5000, so the value was not even accurate.
Unfortunately, the story doesn’t have the most hopeful of endings. The year afterwards, Hessler was arrested for driving under the influence. Thanks to Florida’s famously open attitude to arrest records, we can see that it was her second charge for drink-driving at the age of just 21. Suddenly, this becomes a much less fun feature and more of a study of someone trying to monetise a mispent youth.
Here’s hoping that was enough of a wake-up call to get her life back on track. Considering that she’s spent the next ten years occasionally popping up on YouTube, third boob and all, to make vaguely fetish-themed content, it seems that she’s found her niche. Hopefully, she’s working on it today in a better place than she started out in, but to be fair, that doesn’t sound like it would be particularly difficult.
Someone should still at least try to get a hold of Busted, though. God knows their schedule should be clear enough.