{"id":71822,"date":"2025-08-15T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71822"},"modified":"2025-08-15T03:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T03:22:01","slug":"mom-with-over-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71822","title":{"rendered":"Mom With Over 800"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"879\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-529.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-529.png 879w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-529-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-529-768x654.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Tattooed Mum Who Won\u2019t Conform<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa Sloan, 46, from Wales, has spent 26 years covering herself in tattoos \u2014 around 800 in total \u2014 earning the label of \u201cfreak\u201d from strangers and exclusion from her community. Despite this, her two children, aged 8 and 10, still see her as a role model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since her first tattoo at 20, Sloan has become so dedicated that she carries her tattoo gun in her car, often receiving three \u201cprison style\u201d tattoos a week from her partner. Her inked face and body have cost her jobs \u2014 even cleaning toilets \u2014 and invite constant public ridicule. \u201cThe more I have, the more they think I\u2019m a freak,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s been barred from school events and endures verbal abuse whenever she leaves home, but she tells her children to \u201ctake no notice.\u201d Both share her interest in body art, wearing temporary tattoos until they\u2019re old enough for the real thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sloan shares before-and-after photos online, unrecognizable from her pre-ink days. She accepts she\u2019ll never fit in \u2014 and insists she\u2019ll always be herself, no matter the cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=71800\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tattooed Mum Who Won\u2019t Conform Melissa Sloan, 46, from Wales, has spent 26 years covering herself in tattoos \u2014 around 800 in total \u2014 earning the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71824,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71822\/revisions\/71824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}