Press Trust of India
London: Paris Jackson has revealed the reason she has had 23 tattoos is because they help her forget about her “dark past”. The 18-year-old aspiring actress – the daughter of the late Michael Jackson – only turned 18 in April, but has already had an impressive 23 inkings on her body.
However, to Paris – who was only 11 when her father died in 2009 – the pieces are more than just body art as each time she looks in the mirror she remembers how far she has come since being sectioned to a psychiatric hospital for three months in 2013 after an overdose, reported Femalefirst. Alongside a picture showing off her inked forearms on Instagram, she wrote: “The craftsmanship of tattoos will always be a controversy. Some people like them, some people absolutely hate them.
I appreciate art, I always have especially when that art means something to me. “Today I can look at my inner forearms and see art that has meaning for me, I don’t see a dark past anymore. My scars and self-hatred have been covered up by loving marks, creativity , ingenuity.. and depth. sure I will always carry my past with me, but I see ink as a way of changing for the better, always improving. They represent the strength for me.
I look back at my old self and then I
look in the mirror, and I see a fighter looking back at me. (sic)” One of Paris’
tattoos is her father’s ‘Dangerous’ album cover, her second permanent tribute to
the late King of Pop, after she had
the words ‘Queen of My Heart’ in her
father’s handwriting etched onto her
left wrist.