A fashion designer mum who loves covering her one-year-old son in temporary tattoos says she’s not going to ease up on the toddler’s fake body art, despite the constant criticism from other parents.
Shameka Morris started putting fake tatts on her son Treylin when he was just six-months-old. The adorable toddler has his own Instagram account which has more than 55,000 followers.
And while most of the comments on the photos are supportive, Shameka’s choice to cover her son in temporary tatts tends to cause a huge stir in the comments. But the Florida-based mum says she’s not going to stop.
“I get a lot of backlash because people are not used to seeing a baby with tattoos. They say I’m raising my son as a ‘gangster’ and ‘thug’,” she said.
The heavily-tattooed mum says even her own family were initially against the fake tattoos. “When I first started tattooing Treylin, my family hated it because they don’t like that I have tattoos.”
But Shameka’s sister Dinera says the family is now supportive.
“When Shameka came up with the idea, I wasn’t down with it, I was totally against it. I did not want her to do that with him. But since I’ve seen where it could take her and Treylin, I didn’t have no issue with it because it turned out to be a positive thing.”
Shameka says she’s no stranger to being ridiculed for her appearance, so she expected it would be the same for her son.
“When I was eight months pregnant I did a maternity shoot with my brothers at a tattoo shop. And I got bullied on social media. All the comments were negative, people were saying my baby was going to be born with a whole bunch of tattoos, that he’s going to have skin poison. It was crazy.”
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But Shameka says she shakes off the negativity, because she sees how much joy the body art brings her son.
“When he sees himself dressed in the mirror, he be feeling himself, he be dancing. I really think he enjoys it.”
(Sources: Reuters, The Sun, Daily Mail UK)
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