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Then she laughs—a gleeful, inhuman, full-throated laugh that contorts her body into unnatural angles and positions.

When it was retired last year, it was replaced with a newer, fully electric model developers said could contort its metal frame in even more ways.

“I actually find him really small and contorted and tortured.”

Performing under the name Mary Caryl, Serritella contorts her body into positions called “The Chopstick,” “The Jade Split” and “The Black Sun Split,” whirling around a silver pole as disco music plays.

But it’s also how she presents in the world of modeling, hooked up to wires, contorting her body to emulate a snake and sprawled across a hospital bed.