Amber Rose said she was inspired to get her new face tattoo after the death of Kobe Bryant.
During her guest appearance on âOne on One with Keysha Cole,â the former model revealed the tragic passing of the NBA great â who died in a helicopter crash last month â made her realize life is precious and too short to not follow her heart.
âI gotta be honest. And I donât want this to sounds corny or whatever. After Kobe died⊠it made me reflect on my life. And I donât want people to be like âOh Kobe died and you went and got a tattoo.â But it was kind of like that,â the 36-year-old explained.
âMy dad had cancer when he was like 40. And he went through remission and heâs good, but he almost died and Iâm 36 and I was like Iâve been wanting this tattoo for a long time,â she continued to tell host Keysha.
âAnd I was like âLife is so short,â just do it. Just live your best life. Itâs just like â with no regrets. Thatâs just how I felt and Iâm happy I did it.â
The SlutWalk ambassador took to Instagram to debut her new facial ink on Wednesday, which reads âBash Slashâ in honor of her two children Sebastian Thomaz and Slash Edwards. She shares Sebastion with rapper Wiz Khalifa and Slash with Def Jam executive Alexander âA.Eâ Edwards.
âBeauty is not whatâs on the outside â itâs whatâs on the inside that counts. Inside of my Pâsy and inside of my heart đđ„°đ€,â she captioned a picture of herself in a silk red robe while featuring the large artwork on her forehead.
After receiving backlash from fans for having the permanent marking on her face, Rose clapped back on Instagram an hour later.
âFor the people that are telling me Iâm too pretty for a face tat are the same people that would tell me that Iâm âtoo prettyâ even if they thought I was ugly and lie to me Lol,â she wrote. âOr they would just tell me Iâm ugly so either way the moral of the story is do whatever the fâk you want in life â muva.â
Roseâs beau Edwards â in a show of solidarity â followed suit and got the the boysâ birthdays tattooed on his forehead.
The couple are part of a new Hollywood trend of celebrities getting inked on their face.
Cindy Crawfordâs son Presley Gerber recently revealed a tattoo under his right eye which reads âmisunderstood.â
A Nike sneaker was permanently etched onto Chris Brownâs cheek.
And The Game was also inspired by Kobeâs untimely death, as he got â8â â one of the LA Lakersâ jersey numbers â inked above his eyebrow.
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