{"id":144305,"date":"2023-11-30T13:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T13:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/?p=144305"},"modified":"2023-11-30T13:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T13:25:02","slug":"i-have-a-tattoo-on-my-face-people-tell-me-im-a-bad-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/lifestyle\/i-have-a-tattoo-on-my-face-people-tell-me-im-a-bad-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a tattoo on my face – people tell me I'm a bad mother"},"content":{"rendered":"
A mother who got a face tattoo to honour her daughter says trolls claim the inking makes her a ‘bad parent’ – but she doesn’t regret it.<\/p>\n
Katie Taylor,\u00a027, from Rayleigh, Essex, has been getting tattoos since she was 18 and wanted a special one to always reminded her of her two-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
She has\u00a0a rose, as a nod to her daughter’s middle name on her face so it could serve as a ‘constant’ reminder – and although trolls haven’t been kind, Katie sports her tat with pride.<\/p>\n
Trolls have told Katie her tattoos make her ‘bad parent’ and a ‘thug’ but she doesn’t care and said her little girl ‘loves it’.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The stay-at-home mum spent \u00a380 on the tattoo – which sits to the side of her left ear – and took an hour to complete.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Katie Taylor got a tattoo of a rose on her face to commemorate her daughter<\/p>\n
She said:\u00a0‘My daughter\u00a0said to me “That’s my tattoo”. She loves it.\u00a0<\/span>I’ve had the odd comment on my tattoos like: “You’re a bad parent”.’<\/p>\n The mother already has around 15 tattoos – making up a sleeve on her right arm and thigh – and went to add to her inkings with a design on her face on November 16, 2023.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Apart from her first tattoo at 18 – a bird design which she quickly got covered up with green roses, Katie has ‘never regretted’ any of her tattoos.<\/p>\n Katie said: ‘I’ve always loved tattoos and piercings. My face one is so gentle on the face. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea’.<\/p>\n Katie said the inking wasn’t painful but she doesn’t plan on getting any further ones on her face.<\/p>\n She said she’s had a mixed reaction to her ink – with some loving it and others\u00a0brazenly criticising her look.<\/p>\n ‘Some people online have said “You’re a thug’, “You look like you’ve just got out of prison” – [but] I don’t judge someone by the way they look.’<\/p>\n Katie said all that matters is her partner, Jake Kennedy, 29, a business owner, and their daughter love her tattoo.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Katie clutching her two-year-old daughter tightly, as she stands confidently to show off her face tat which trolls have slammed her for<\/p>\n She said Jake encouraged her to go and get her face tattoo when she was thinking about it.<\/p>\n Katie said: ‘He was the one that said “If you want it, you go and get it”.\u00a0My daughter says “Mum’s got lots of drawings on her arms”.’<\/p>\n ‘This tattoo has got to be my favourite so far. I want my daughter to grow up knowing if she wants a tattoo or to do something for herself, she could go and do it.<\/p>\n ‘I want to show her that can do what wants in the world’.<\/p>\n