But this singer - whose video Prototype aired on Channel 4 during the X Factor final - is no ordinary popstar, she's an amputee who fought to remove her painful, useless left leg so she could fulfil her dreams of music success.

Now the 26-year-old, who wore a shiny black spike as a prosthetic in the sexy six-minute video, is determined to use her body and past to challenge Britain's notions of disability.

The video has already had eight million views and includes a beautiful dance in which Viktoria spins on the black shard that extends from above her knee down to a sharp point on the floor.

Yet this clever routine and glossily-styled shoot masks Viktoria's years of pain, in which doctors told her mother to put her in a home and she endured 15 operations - only relieved when she convinced UK surgeons that her leg should be removed. 

She tells FEMAIL: ‘I was born in Latvia when it was still in the USSR and my mother had a really complicated birth.

‘There was doctor's negligence during the birth which meant they dislocated my leg and hip.

‘After that, there were several corrective procedures, including putting the leg in a plaster when I was two weeks old, but sadly that actually stalled the growth of my leg.

‘By the time I was six, there was a considerable difference between my tw

(dailymail.co.uk)