A mother’s two adoring children still
look up to her even though she’s taunted and teased by people who call her a
‘freak’.
The woman isn’t physically abnormal in
any way. Instead, she has “prison style” tattoos all over her body. She claims
she can’t stop getting new tattoos because she’s an addict, despite the fact
that she can’t find employment and that verbal abuse is directed at her
whenever she leaves her house.
To learn more about this mother and how
she serves as a role model for her children, keep reading!

Wales
native Melissa Sloan, 46, has a toxic 26-year romance with a tattoo gun but
doesn’t seem to regret it. She started getting tattoos when she was 20 years
old. Sloan now recognizes that she is rejected by society, and although knowing
that her life would get worse as she gains more weight, she still won’t give
up.
“It’s
like when you have a [cigarette] or a drink, you get addicted. I can’t stop it
now, it’s addictive, for me anyway. I just can’t stop it,” said Sloan, adding
that since tattoo parlors started denying her, because she’s “beyond help,” she
got her own kit. She continued, “I carry the [tattoo] gun around with me
in the boot, I’ll get one in the car or anywhere.”
Sloan
continues to have her partner give her three “tattoos prison style” each week
despite the fact that she is unemployed and that her body and face are now
covered in pretty sloppy ink. More than 800 tattoos are on her.
Sloan
noted that while she once worked as a toilet cleaner, she no longer pursues
positions with similar responsibilities.
“I
can’t get a job. They won’t have me. I applied for a job cleaning toilets where
I live and they won’t have me because of my tattoos…People have said I have
never had a job in my life, I have had one once and it didn’t last long.” She
continued, “But, if someone offered me a job tomorrow, I would go and work–I
would take that offer.”

Sloan
claimed that in addition to being jobless, she is also treated like an outcast
and that whenever she leaves her house, she is verbally harassed and made fun
of, with people gawking and gazing.
“Worse,
the more I have the more they think I’m a freak. They jump out of the way and I
think ‘what are you doing that for?’ It’s horrible,” she said. “I expected this
in life, I can’t fit in with people as I like to be me and I’m always going to
be myself.”
Sloan
further alleges that she has been excluded from local bars and activities at
her children’s elementary and middle schools, where her two young children,
ages eight and ten, may even participate. She is unaffected by even that.

“The
kids say, ‘mum they’re looking at you’ and I say ‘take no notice of them,’”
said the body art enthusiast, adding that her kids pick up on negative
attitudes towards her. “They say my children will run away when they’re older,
that’s heartbreaking.”
Sloan’s
kids already like body art, and she encourages them to follow her example by
modeling it for them.
“They
got some on their arms last night, they’ve got school so they will have to take
them off,” Sloan said, about allowing the children to have
temporary tattoos, with promises for permanent art in the future. “I tell
them they’ll have better ones when they are older.”
She
was an average looking woman before to getting her tattoos. On her Instagram
page, she posted pictures of her face before getting tattoos. If you knew her
back then, she doesn’t even appear like the same person now!

While
appropriate body art is acceptable, some people can go too far. Although
passing judgment is never appropriate, we can comprehend why employers are
hesitant to give her the opportunity to represent their business. To prevent
future feelings of exclusion, we hope that this woman’s children learn from
their mother’s errors.
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