They’ll sit through dance recitals, attend concerts they have no interest in and watch junior high school kids butcher Shakespeare just to encourage progeny’s ambitions.
None of those sacrifices are permanent. Tatiana Shmayluk’s mom took things above and beyond when she offered up her skin to her daughter’s budding artistic aspirations. “My parents gave me a tattoo gun as a birthday present,” Shmayluk recalls. “I tattooed my leg, then I tattooed my second leg, then I tattooed my third leg… just kidding. I was pretty bored and I was really into tattooing but I didn’t have money to go to a real teacher and get lessons, so I did it myself.
“My mom was one of my clients,” she continues. “She said, ‘I sacrifice my body to you, I invest in you, and maybe one day you’ll become a real tattoo artist.’ And I never did. I never made it. She lost. Sorry, Mom (laughs).”
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