"I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it"
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The intent reads half-confessional, half-flex. It’s not “I’m in pain,” it’s “I’m in control,” delivered with the sort of offhand bravado that keeps vulnerability from becoming spectacle. Yet the subtext cuts both ways. If you can dislocate a joint on command, you’re also admitting a relationship to your own body that’s intensely pragmatic: a willingness to override normal limits, to treat anatomy as adjustable. That’s an unsettlingly clean metaphor for an industry that prizes transformation and compliance while selling ease.
Context matters: Bax comes from an era when supermodel cool was built on being unbothered, almost amused by the demands placed on you. The line fits that affect perfectly. It makes the body’s fragility sound like a feature, not a bug - and that’s why it sticks. It’s a single sentence that smuggles in the cost of looking effortless.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bax, Kylie. (2026, January 16). I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-pull-a-bone-out-of-my-shoulder-and-136614/
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Bax, Kylie. "I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-pull-a-bone-out-of-my-shoulder-and-136614/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-can-pull-a-bone-out-of-my-shoulder-and-136614/. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.





