A mother’s two adoring children continue to look up to her as a role model despite the fact that her peers have called her a “freak.”

There are no innate flaws in the woman’s appearance. Instead, she’s covered from head to toe in “prison style” tattoos and refuses to stop getting more ink, claiming she’s an addict despite her inability to find a job and the verbal abuse she endures whenever she leaves the house.

Melissa Sloan, 46, is a Welsh lady who has had a love/hate connection with a tattoo gun for the past 26 years. Since she was twenty years old, she has been collecting tattoos.

Now that Sloan has accepted that she is socially outcast, she is well aware that the more successful she becomes, the more challenging her life will be. “It’s like when you have a [cigarette] or a drink, you get addicted. I can’t stop it now, it’s addictive, for me anyway. I just can’t stop it,” said Sloan, adding that since tattoo parlors started denying her, because she’s “beyond help,” she got her own kit.