Jodie Marsh is famous in Britain as a media personality, having made many appearances on various television outlets and shows.  She is also well known for her sexy body and her abundant tattoos across her arms and torso.  In addition, she has worked and claimed fame as a bodybuilder and glamour model, showing off her physique and her ink.  Love her or hate her, Jodie is most definitely in love with tattoos, and not afraid of getting them, even when other people pick them out for her. Too Many Tattoos to Count Jodie Marsh has so many tattoos that it is sometimes difficult to keep count, but estimates show that she probably has over 70 tattoos!  As you can imagine, it is quite hard to keep track of the various works of art on her body.  And we don’t see her stopping anytime soon, as she seems to love getting tattoos and showing them off. Jodie has gotten some tattoos that have meaning to her and others that seem outright meaningless.  Some examples are the faces of Michael Jackson, Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry, who are all individuals who have perhaps influenced her in some way and of whom she apparently became a very big fan.  They are now permanently inked onto her arms. In addition to faces of celebrities on her body, she also has more sentimental tattoos, including the name “Kim,” in remembrance of her late best friend, proving that her life has been inspired by people from those in the media to those in her own personal world.  She also loves her pets, as evidenced by the name of her late dog, Pixie, which is also found near the name Kim on the back of her neck. Jodie’s left shoulder and shoulder blade are covered in various tattoos, including leopard prints that extend from her shoulder and down into her mid-back.  Other tattoos in that area are smaller and some are harder to make out, including a burning candle and a chicken. One of Jodie’s most outrageous tattoos is a devil’s tail coming out of her butt cheeks.  She actually got that tattoo when fans picked it out for her through Bizarre Magazine. In addition, she also has some Celtic symbols and bows as well as the word “porn” with a star drawn next to it – translating to “porn star,” clearly – on her lower back.  Her lower back also has the word “cheekie,” which was her very first tattoo. Jodie loves mottos, and she lives by many of them, so she decided to have some tattooed onto her body as reminders of who she is and wants to be.  Some examples include the phrases “My Crazy Life,” “Life’s Too Short,” and “Only God Can Judge Me,” which are all found on her arms. Down Jodie’s left shoulder is an obvious and fairly large tattoo of a pinup girl posing in a bra, panties, and thigh-high stockings.  Various smaller tattoos surround this one as well, including a clothes hanger and a pair of dice. Other tattoos on Jodie include a pair of stilettos she herself wore while a dancer at Stringfellows, rosary beads on her right wrist, a red lipstick tattoo on her neck, a feather underneath the tattoo of Michael Jackson’s face, and many others that seem to form a sleeve’s worth of coverage down her left shoulder and arm.

Jackson Rathbone is the actor playing the role of vampire Jasper Hale in the Twilight sequel New Moon. If you do not yet know who he is, I am certain you soon will. This young man’s path to stardom will be short. The multi-talented, and rather gorgeous, Rathbone also performs in the band “100 Monkeys” and finds that there is a distinct difference between rock fans and the Twilight series’ followers. “The 100 Monkeys fans are wild—one of my bandmates once got molested in a bathroom after a show,” Rathbone says. On the other hand, he states: “Twilight fans are so amazing—they’re always asking me to sign stuff, like their faces, or their cell phones. I’m like, I don’t want to deface your cell phone! And I especially don’t want to deface your face.” His fanbase has grown exponentially in recent months and he has recently stated his love for tattoos in Inked Magazine. “I only have one right now, but I definitely plan to get more,” he says coyly. His plans for future work is fairly clear. He wants to have a tattoo that represents his family. “I’d love to get the Rathbone family crest on my back—it would take up my whole back. Our motto is ‘Suaviter et Fortiter,’ which means ‘nicely, but firmly,’” Rathbone says. “My dad always taught me that you’ve got to give respect to get respect, and you’ve got to give love to get love. Makes sense, right?” At present, Jackson only has a single tattoo. It is on his right hip and reads: “I’m lost”. In his own words: “I only have one right now, but I definitely plan on getting more. My friends and I were kind of the bad kids in school, the troublemakers. We went to Interlochen Arts Academy, this really great boarding school in Michigan, and there were six of us who were always acting out against authority. The school administration was like, “Stay away from those boys-they’re ‘Lost Boys,’” so that’s what everyone called us. When I was 18, I got a tattoo that says, “I’m lost.” *sigh* what chance do us mere mortal women have? The combination of green eyes, bad boy rock band member, vamp make-up and a lost soul all in one tasty male package is just too much fodder for the imagination…

How far? How about as far as Russia. Now, we all know that in everything there is a boundary that must not be crossed. Call it bad taste, call it social madness, even call it outright wrong. Russians have found just such a boundary and boldly gone where no true animal lover could possibly contemplate going. The new trend first arose in Russia. While it may have occurred elsewhere before, never in recent history has any society embraced such an aberrant use of tattoo art with such openness and lack of shame. What is this horrid new fashion? It is the tattooing of one’s pets.Cat owners have taken to getting their felines tattooed with elaborate, colorful designs for no other reason than because they can. It is reported that one woman had her Canadian Hairless put under general anesthesia for three hours while an image of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun was tattooed on its chest. Needless to say, this practice has animal right ativists in Russia spitting hairballs in fury. One spokeswoman of the movement has publicly condemned the cosmetic tattooing of animals, saying: “The ethical thinking about animals in Russia lacks behind that of the West. People in Russia mostly buy animals for selfish reasons and anything that happens to them afterwards is a consequence of that.” The reaction, however, is not restricted to the former USSR. The RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the UK) has published its opinion on the matter also: “We are totally against using animals for purely cosmetic reasons just on the owner’s whim. Clearly the animal has no say in the matter. We do not believe in using pets as fashion accessories. It shows no respect for the animal whatsoever. So far we have only heard about this practice happening overseas – and we hope it doesn’t spread.” The tattoo artist who undertook the task is called Anatoly Keksel. The cat’s owner apparently “wanted something new and different for the times we live in” while Keksel proudly lifted up his shirt and announced that he had the identical tattoo himself.  It makes you wonder why he would want to share that information…