She’s been dubbed the world’s first amputee pop artist: at the age of 20, Viktoria Modesta asked doctors to remove her lower left leg, which had been the source of health problems since birth. <br /><br /> Instead of holding her back, her disability has helped her achieve success.<br /><br /> Launched last December, the music video for her song ‘Prototype’ has already clocked up close to 5 million views on Youtube.<br /><br /> “I think it was really, really important for us to really get it out there and really get people talking, and get people reacting and kind of start a debate, I think,” says the 26-year old pop star. <br /><br /> Due to doctor’s negligence at her birth in February 1987 in her native Latvia, the bionic pop star’s leg stopped growing. She underwent 15 operations between the ages of 6 and 12, and eventually decided to have it amputated to gain mobility.<br /><br /> “She left her country and came to London at a very early age, integrated herself with fetish club scenes, with the night life scene in London, you know,
