Her name is Nokulunga Buthelezi; Lunga for short. She comes from South Africa and is one of the most incredible contortionists in the world today.
Lunga, who started her "trade" for free as an elementary school performer can do almost anything with her body and has mesmerized audiences around the the world, mostly in Europe and North America (see video).
According to the Voyeur’s Vision blog, Lunga is not a trained contortionist, her talent quite natural. She said she acquired this unusual talent from the "snake genes" passed on to her by her great-grandmother. She used to perform for her teachers and classmates in elementary school in Johannesburg, South Africa, from where she was picked up by a talent scout. Now she travels around the world and makes over $100,000 a year, a far cry from what the average South African earns.
Lunga now takes care of her extended family but she regrets that she never had a normal childhood, always working with adults from her very early teens to now. No boy-girl relationships either. She is just 18.
But all that seems to be compensated by her enormous popularity in and out of her country. And the fact that she can retire any time she wants or continue doing what she does into old age. The only problem is that she has to watch what she eats, she says. A supple and flexible body is immensely important in her chosen profession.
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