'I can use my belly as a table': Meet the man with the world's stretchiest skin
By Amy Oliver
Meet Gary 'Stretch' Turner.
His skin is so loose and stretchy he can turn his belly into a table - capable of holding three pints of beer.
Whether anyone wants to be served a beverage from a skin shelf is unclear, but just in case they don't, Mr Turner has plenty more tricks up his sagging sleeve.
The 41-year-old suffers from an extreme case of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that has weakened his skin.
It doesn't hurt, honest: Garry 'Stretch' Turner claims to have the world's stretchiest skin
Multi purpose: Turner also claims he can use his belly as a table and is able to rest three pints of beer on the skin shelf
In most cases the disorder weakens people's joints and blood vessels and affects around one in 10,000 people. Mr Turner's strain is very rare.
He told ABC News: If you 'look at your own skin cells under a microscope, they'd be nice and round and lock in many places. But my skin cells tend to be more jagged, and don't fit together quite so well.
'The best way to describe it is I'm built rather like a badly woven basket, if you can imagine that, which will pull apart.'
Pain in the neck: Turner suffers from an extreme case of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that has severely weakened his skin
Gives a whole new meaning to bingo wings: Turner shows off his muscles (and skin flaps)
He added his skin was 'actually twice as thin as regular skin. Although you wouldn't believe it to look at it. it is actually quite paper thin.'
Mr Turner said he first noticed his stretchy skin when he was around three or four years old.
He told AOL: 'I had an uncle who was about 10 years old. He used to pull my skin and show his friends. I knew by their reactions I had something strange.'
Less Batman, more blinking terrifying: Turner does his best impression of Gotham's caped crusader with several heavy duty bulldog clips
He uses heavy duty bulldog clips to pull his sagging skin down and does a truly terrifying impression of Batman.
Mr Turner is a former star of Circus of Horrors, the group which auditioned for Britain's Got Talent last year. He is now a performer for the Royal Family of Strange People, a unique collective of fascinating individuals currently performing in London.
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