A mother\u2019s two adoring children still look up to her even though she\u2019s taunted and teased by people who call her a \u2018freak\u2019.<\/p>\n
The woman doesn\u2019t have any natural physical deformities. Instead, she\u2019s covered head to toe in \u201cprison style\u201d tattoos, and despite her inability to find work, along with the verbal attacks that strike her every time she steps out of her home, she refuses to stop getting more ink, saying she\u2019s an addict.<\/p>\n
Keep reading to find out more about this mom and how she\u2019s a role model to her kids!<\/p>\n
Melissa Sloan is a 46-year-old woman from Wales, who shows no regret over her toxic 26-year relationship with a tattoo gun. She has been getting inked since she was 20 years old. Sloan now accepts that she\u2019s shunned by society, and though she understands the more she gets, the more difficult life becomes, she still refuses to stop.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like when you have a [cigarette] or a drink, you get addicted. I can\u2019t stop it now, it\u2019s addictive, for me anyway. I just can\u2019t stop it,\u201d said Sloan, adding that since tattoo parlors started denying her, because she\u2019s \u201cbeyond help,\u201d she got her own kit. She continued, \u201cI carry the [tattoo] gun around with me in the boot, I\u2019ll get one in the car or anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though Sloan can\u2019t find a job\u2013her body and face are now covered in somewhat sloppy ink\u2013she continues to have her boyfriend give her three \u201ctattoos prison style\u201d each week. She has more than 800 tattoos.<\/p>\n