Here is The Woman Kanye, Katy Perry, and Other Celebrities Pay to Bite Them (Professionally)
CelebritiesDirt BagHere is a new entry into the “weird things celebrities spend actual money on while the only savings account I have is the jar of change on my desk” category: a masseuse who gives deep-tissue massages to stars like Kanye and Katy Perry—with her teeth.
For over three decades, Dorothy Stein—a woman who is not even a vampire or an anglerfish—has kneaded the shoulders of celebrity musicians with her actual bicuspids, incisors, and whatever the rest are called. Unfortunately, Frank Zappa gave her the endearing-but-plain nickname “Dr. Dot,” which disappoints me; Frank Zappa, you could’ve done better.
“Massage and music [were] instilled in me early on,” she told Billboard in a post earlier today. According to Stein, she developed her unorthodox form of therapy after following the advice of her mother, who “instructed her to bite her back as a child for a more intense massage.”
The masseuse embarked on her career in 1983, beginning with the subject of my least-favorite made-for-TV movie syndicated on VH1 in the early aughts, Def Leppard.
“I went to every Def Leppard show and massaged them,” recounted Stein. “I built a network with those people and eventually started massaging bands to get into shows.”