‘I spent £22k on extreme tattoos and my exes hated it – but I got last laugh’
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‘I spent £22k on extreme tattoos and my exes hated it – but I got last laugh’
An inked woman with £22,000 worth of tattoos says judgemental ex-boyfriends would not let her meet their parents.
She's had the last laugh though – as she's now a famous model and has married the love of her life.
Mareike Herder, 27, from Frankfurt, Germany, enjoyed a normal, happy upbringing before her fascination with tattoos began.
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However, when she went and lived in Wisconsin, US, for ten months as part of a school exchange programme when she was just 16, she she met many different people with various styles of tattoos.
Since then, she has amassed over 66 inkings, two nose piercings, a piercing on her bottom lip and she has had her ears stretched.
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“The last tattoo I did was on my palms and it's a peony which is my favourite flower.
“I’d say the most painful tattoo was blackening out the belly button. That was crazy painful.”
Initially Mareike’s tattoos were not well received by everyone.
“In Germany at the time people associated lots of tattoos with people not really being successful and just having a bad connotation to it,” said Mareike.
“I got a lot of ‘but what will happen when you are old’ from people.
“My parents were more concerned for my health because of the level of ‘trauma' to my skin as I did so many in quite a short time.
“Today people are more clued up on what and how tattoos work.
“My family love my tattoos, even my mum has two now.
“My friends have always been supportive and know that my tattoos are part of who I am. Many have never even known me without them.”
Mareike currently has almost 500,000 followers on Instagram and, after appearing on Germany's Next Top Model, her reach skyrocketed.
“A lot happened for me both on and after I appeared on the show,” she said.
“Lots of people used to message me to say they found it really cool and refreshing to see someone covered in tattoos could be relatable."
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