Kelly Osbourne: Why I'm Removing Most of My 15 Tattoos
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Kelly Osbourne isn't done reinventing herself!
The slimmed down star -- who recently told Us Weekly about how she's managed to keep off almost 50 pounds after a year -- plans to get most of her 15 tattoos removed.
Osbourne, 25, announced her decision to undergo laser tattoo removal in her weekly column for British magazine Closer (as reported in The Daily Mail.)
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She had her revelation recently while shooting the flick Should've Been Romeo, when makeup artists covered up the ink. "I can't say I missed them!" she wrote.
"I met with my dermatologist and I'll start the laser treatment as soon as I have time," the Dancing with the Star alum said.
The erasure process won't be short and painless, either. "It will take several months, and while I'm not looking forward to the pain, I've heard it hurts less than getting the tattoo," Osbourne wrote. "I hope so!"
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She doesn't hate all of her tattoos, Osbourne explained. "Some still have a special meaning, like the matching ones my brother Jack and I have of each other's names, but now I feel like some were a mistake."
Last year, Osbourne told British talk show This Morning that getting inked was "my way of self harming, because I really knew it would upset my mum and dad," she admitted of parents Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne.
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"I was miserable and I just went and got all these tattoos and I don't know why. One of them is a keyboard and I don't even know how to play a piano!"
She added: "As you get older, you realize that you don't want to be defined by your tattoos, because that's not the type of person that I am."
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15I happen to adore tattoos. Then again my first tattoo was dedicated to my aunt who has passed of cancer so I didn't start off with getting tattoos for the sake of getting them. I get them with good meaning and I love art. I understand getting rid of tattoos when they have no meaning but to say tattoos shouldn't be gotten is a little over board.
Another reason to go for the temp tatts - try the BodyArt Fashion range!!
Kelly, you are a very pretty lady and you have matured so much. Let the tattoos go. It may be painful but it will be worth it. Good luck my dear and stay sweet.
Kelly you have become a very beautiful and classy lady. Keep up with your healthy lifestyle as it serves you well. Tats be-gone!
Oh my God, please be careful. The place that I went to for this was Dermacare Laser & Skin Care Clinic in Cherry Hill, NJ - Dr. Pinto. The laser tattoo removal process is the worst pain I have ever felt. I was told that this process was a very safe and reliable process. One of the safest and would leave no scars and I would be guaranteed success on the removal of my tattoos. The pain was excrutiating. I have never felt worse pain in my life. They put a numbing cream on before the laser but it didn't really help at all. I have 13 tattoos and he roughly shot around 10 of them. After the process he put antibiotic cream on them and wrapped them. I was to come back 6 weeks later but he was booked the 6th week so I was scheduled for the following week, which would have been June 10th (that visit never happened, thank God for knowing my own body or I would probably not be here today to write this letter. This happened the year of 4/2006. I didn't start to feel back to normal till around June 10th but here is what I had to go through: I would say a week and a half after the first treatment of laser tattoo removal I started feeling very ill. I became ill with upper respiratory, fever, weak, nausea and vomiting. I couldn't get out of bed for a month. So weak I couldn't even make it to the bathroom or shower and times feeling like I was going to have a heart attack. I had a fever for weeks, that has never happened to me. I would wake up in the middle of the night the bed soaked because my body was sweating so bad after I took a pain pill for the fever. I was so scared, I felt like I was dying. This was a terrible thing that I had to go through. I have always been perfectly healthy so the tattoo Dr. telling me that it wasn't from the laser tattoo removal wasn't logical to me. My own Dr. didn't know what was happening to me and he agreed that the tattoo removal process did hurt me. How do you proof such things. Briefly to tell you on my blood tests, the week of May 11th my liver numbers were elevated slightly 70, 55, 55, a week later on May 18th they went up to 129, 99, 140. At the time of my elevated liver numbers they ran a test on me for Hepatitis and it came back positive on Hepatitis C. he then ran a test to see if the Hep C was active in my body and it showed No Activity of Hep C in my body. I have never had any issues with any signs of Hepatitis in my body. My body had a ultrasound done on my liver and gall bladder, they looked normal but the spleen was enlarged. I am lucky that I was so healthy to begin with but if I wasn't I know this procedure would have killed me. I hope to stop further sicknesses or even deaths from happening because of this horrible treatment they have out for tattoo removal. The Doctor at the Laser Tattoo removal refunded part of my monies but not the cost of the initial treatment (maybe it's because it would have been a admission of guilt). He did tell me that this treatment may have made my immune system not work like it should have and I caught a virus. HOW CAN THIS PROCEDURE BE CALLED SAFE IF SUCH A THING CAN HAPPEN!!! I DON'T UNDERSTNAD. I have always taken such care of myself that this disturbs me greatly. Also after all this roughly a year after this happened, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. When the immune system is down the body attacks the thyroid so no one can tell me I didn't get the thyroid cancer from the laser tattoo removal process. The cancer came out with the thyroid removal but I lost one of my vocal chords. My other vocal chord has taken over pretty good because my voice is almost like before. Please live with the skin you have. Your tattoos are a part of you and your life story. Don't take that away.
Tattoos are a form of self expression... Every tattoo represents who you once were... It is always good to remember the road you traveled... it helps us remain true to our self.... And, By the way, women with tattoos are just as lovely and just female as those who don't wear them... Don't judge what you don't understand...
Proud of you and your success in your total makeover. Keep on track and your star will continue to shine. Wish we could all get rid of the uglies from our past.
Good luck Kelly! I hope the removal goes well !
She's so delusional. Laser removal is much more painful than being tattooed. Perhaps if she had been less impulsive she would have made better choices in the images and their placement. They will never be totally gone, laser can completely remove the black and some of the colors. Other colors will be un-touched. In the end will the makeup person be able to camouflage the damaged skin?
I didn't get my first tatt until I was 40. I had wanted the same tatt since I was 16. Every tattoo I have has a very special meaning. I can't imagine not having people and events in my life that don't require permanent commemoration. Congratulations to Kelly for being mature enough to remove the tattoos that mean nothing to her.
Why would you want to ruin your beautiful skin with gross disgusting tattoos. Good for you Kelly, get rid of them all. Good riddance to bad rubbish. People will always define you by what you put out.
Maybe others "define" you by your tattoo, but I define my own tattoos. Each of my tattoos have a specific meaning and are understated and not easily witnessed, except by myself. If people define me by my tattoos that's their problem, if I define myself by my tattoos instead of the other way around, then that's my problem.
I've never understood why beautiful women want to cover themselves with ink. Like Megan Fox with her Marilyn Monroe tattoo on her arm. It might be Marilyn now, but in 30 years it'll be Betty White.
Move them all, Kelly. You will still have as much talent as Paris Hilton and be associated with the horror stories coming out of Hollywood, California. You are too late. People know what you bring to a project. Nothing substantial. No merit. Nothing but non-sense. Sounds like a young version of Joan Rivers? Thomas Chi Author Selling Sex with Sarah Palin
ouch! hope she has a high tolerance for pain