Amou Hadji made headlines this week after a
story circulated that he hasn’t bathed himself in
60 years. The 80-year-old Iranian man sat down
for a brief photo series that details what could
happen to the human body.
Not surprisingly, Hadji has a deep odor and his
skin is tough and scaly. Hadji is homeless and
refuses to eat food or drink clean water. His
favorite food is dead porcupine and he
regularly smokes a pipe filled with animal
feces. Hadji claims that he has chosen this
lifestyle to stay in touch with with the earth.
From the Tehran Times:
The last record of longest time going without
showers belonged to a 66-year-old Indian man,
Kailash Singh, who had not taken a bath over 38
years. Not to our surprise, when we searched the
reason behind Amou Haji’s way of life, we found
out that he had gone through some emotional
setbacks in his youth and from then on decided to
live an isolated life. He escaped from the hands of
a few young men who offered him free shower,
because he believes cleanliness brings him
sickness.
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