Steve-O was all set to get breast implants – until fate intervened.
THE Fool The star recently revealed why he decided to call off the procedure, which he teased he had on a podcast in July.
“The day my scheduled surgery was supposed to take place, I was going to the supermarket and the person picking up my groceries was apparently transgender and it seemed like a sign from the universe,” Steve-O said in a news release. interview with Consequence of Sound. “So I asked the transgender person if I could manage something with them, and I had a conversation with that person that had a profound effect on me.”
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Before this chance encounter, Steve-O had not planned to consult a transgender counselor about the process. “I didn’t really have any dedicated meetings or conversations with trans people because I didn’t feel like I had to,” she said.
The comedian thought his good intentions were enough to justify the procedure. “I knew what my motive was, I knew what my intention was and it wasn’t to hurt anyone. I was just trying to have a laugh,” he said. “I’d done a bunch of shows in labs to try out material and had a lot of trans people come up to me after the shows to express support [the stunt]. And I think some people would be okay with that, and some people wouldn’t be. It would be a mixed bag.”
Still, Steve-O felt lucky to have the opportunity to speak with the cashier. “I feel like the universe put this meeting in front of me and I finally decided that the universe had intervened.”
Steve-O’s large chest would be characteristically provocative. “I would ride a pink Vespa at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally completely in disguise, where no one could tell who I was,” he said, noting that he would be “hairless, tattooless, in a pink bikini and Daisy Duke shorts. , and a motorcycle helmet that covers my entire face and head,” so his identity was completely revealed. “And the plan I had was to film with hidden cameras going into big gangs of motorcycle riders, who would probably check me out. And I’d walk up to take off my helmet and say, ‘Yeah, man.’ crazy reaction, which, predictably, would be controversial.”
He changed his mind after hearing the cashier’s point of view. “[They] described how they weren’t allowed to use the bathroom at their place of work, that there were maybe 28 states in the country that would arrest them for having an ID that said female,” she recalls. “That there were politicians making a concerted effort to lock them up in internment camps. It was really quite heartbreaking, the level of oppression that was described.”
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This new perspective was enough for Steve-O to scrap his plans. “Cleaned up like that, I thought about it in a way I hadn’t before, where you know, wow, maybe it’s not all fun and games,” he said. “Especially the pranks. Like, I’d consider it a better video if I got beat up at the motorcycle rally. And just having that mindset was very flawed, because ultimately it would be an exercise in celebrating trans violence. At least, it would be interpreted that way.” by some, and when they put it to me like that, I thought, “Wow, maybe I missed the mark on that.”
Steve-O added that he regrets the cancellation – not because he thinks he should have gone through with the stunt, but because he wishes he had never gone public with his plans in the first place. “It was hard for me,” he said. “Looking back, I’m extremely grateful that it didn’t happen. I’m very happy that I didn’t go through with it. But that didn’t make it any easier, because I was so vocal about planning to do that, and I’ve never been the artist to say I’m going to do something and then I wouldn’t do it that’s where I had a problem, I wasn’t keeping my word.
However, Steve-O won’t pretend he never dreamed of getting implants. Instead, he will address the entire saga on his upcoming Super Dummy Tour. “I’m not really avoiding the issue — I’m explaining that I felt like the universe intervened on my behalf,” he said. His shows would also include footage of his pole-dancing training that would aid in a different headline trick. “I took my pole-dancing training very seriously,” she said. “I did some serious inverted pole-dancing stunts.”
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Overall, Steve-O feels positive about the whole endeavor. “The show still has a ton of really good comedy from that whole episode. And the extent to which I was prepared to do it is hilarious in itself,” he said. “I think it’s a very valuable trait to be able to admit when you’ve got things wrong.”
