Steve-O On Why He Canceled His ‘Boob Job’

Steve-O calls it “a sign from the universe,” but it could also be viewed as willful ignorance.

Last week, the “Jackass” star revealed during an interview with the New York-based news website Consequence that he had planned to get breast augmentation as a joke but decided the day of his surgery not to go through with it after speaking with someone who is transgender.

“On the day the scheduled surgery was supposed to happen, I was checking out at the supermarket, and the person ringing up my groceries was evidently transgender, and it struck me as a sign from the universe,” Steve-O told the news outlet. “So I asked the transgender person if I could run something by them, and I had a conversation with this person that had a profound impact on me.”

In July, the comedian told the “X5 Podcast” that he had plans to undergo breast augmentation surgery as a joke.

“I came up with the idea a few years ago to get a boob job and just film a bunch of legitimately funny hidden camera pranks with me in disguise,” he explained at the time. “And then revealing who I actually am.”

Steve-O described to Consequence one of the pranks he had planned. It included him removing all his body hair, “airbrushing” off his tattoos and losing “literally 20 pounds to get really slender and petite.” He also said he planned to wear a “pink bikini top and Daisy Duke shorts and a motorcycle helmet” so that his face would be hidden. He also planned to ride around in a pink Vespa.

“And the plan I had was to film with hidden cameras as I rode up to big gangs of motorcycle riders, who would presumably be checking me out. And I would walk up to pull off my helmet and say, ‘Yeah, dude,’ and get this crazy reaction, which, predictably, would be contentious,” he told the outlet.

Steve-O told Consequence that when he shared this idea with the trans cashier, they had a few notes.

Steve-O said that the cashier thought “my feeling that it was the ultimate statement of body autonomy, me saying my body, my choice. … That part was okay,” Steve-O recalled. “But the part where I deliberately went out to trick people into thinking that I was a woman and then fooling them, and then kind of celebrating the idea of hate towards [trans people] — that was a thing.”

It also seems that the cashier also felt the need to educate Steve-O on how their reality was…