The real-life elephant man has his own trunk (Pics: Europics.at)

Meet the real-life Elephant Man.

The 28-year-old has baffled medics after growing an enormous tumour which covers his entire head and face.

Yang Huiming, who lives in rural central China, is thought to suffer from a rare condition in which benign tumours ‘bond’ with each other – resulting in a single huge growth.

In his case, it has left him with this unsightly ’trunk’ over his nose and up his forehead, reminiscent of the character played by John Hurt in the 1980 Oscar-nominated film.

The growths began with a small bean-sized lump on his left eyelid as a
toddler and quickly spread all over his face, say medics at Military 304
Hospital, in Beijing.

Surgeons believe the growths are caused by a rare deformity of Yang’s skull
which causes facial tissue to constantly grow over diseased fibres
protruding from the skull.

The enormous growth is even visible in X Rays

Now they plan to remove the damaged part of Yang’s skull and replace it with
an alloy plate to halt the constant regrowth of fatty tumours.

“All I want is to look normal.

“I hope and pray this will work,” Yang told the Austrian Times.

What a 54-year-old might look like... Pic: Europics.at

MEET Cindy Jackson who, aged 54, is the most surgically enhanced woman in the world.

Cindy has spent this year altering her appearance to look like movie icon Brigitte Bardot.

On top of the 50 procedures she’s had in the past, she’s filled 2009 with botox, lower lip injections, Restylane injections to fill out her cheeks and Strawberry Laser Lipo treatment on her jawline, stomach and thighs.

In total, she has blown more than £130,000 and had 14 major operations trying to make herself look younger.

She said: “Some say that life begins at 40, but I am loving my 50s.

“On a good day I get chatted up by men in their twenties who think I’m their age and on a bad day I look like I’m in my thirties.

“It’s nice when people say you look great but there is a down side and I have had plenty of nasty comments as well, with people calling me vain and shallow.”

The American, who recently set up own website, has even pledged to keep going under the knife until she is well into her seventies.

She told the Austrian Times: “People say you should grow old gracefully and for me, that is exactly what I am doing! There is nothing graceful about falling to pieces and letting yourself go.

“I have all the benefits of wisdom that come with age but see no reason why I should let those years show in my face.”