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I’m slammed for covering my 1-year-old in ‘tattoos’, trolls say I’m raising a gangster or a thug – but I’m not a bad mum
By Olivia Stringer,
5 hours ago
A MUM has been slammed for covering her one-year-old son in ‘tattoos’.
Fashion designer Shamekia said that trolls tell her that she is raising a “gangster” or a “thug” because “they aren’t used to seeing a baby with tattoos.”
Shamekia loves to put temporary tattoos on her son YouTube Trolls have accused Shamekia of raising a gangster YouTube Shamekia said Treylin loves dressing up YouTube
When she was eight months pregnant, the mum of one did a maternity shoot in a tattoo studio.
“I got bullied for it on social media”, she told Truly .
“People said he was going to be born with a bunch of tattoos, or he was going to have skin poison”.
She continued: “It was crazy, I was laughing, but I decided to get them back.”
Shamekia decided to give her son Treylin his first temporary tattoo when he was six months old.
She said that when she first started putting tattoos on her son, her family were against it as they don’t even like that she has tattoos herself.
However, they have now changed their mind, as other children love seeing Treylin’s tattoos when they are out and about.
She added that she thinks Treyin loves dressing up in the fake tattoos, as when he sees himself in the mirror, he starts dancing.
Shamekia describes her son as a “celebrity” as the TikTok account she uses to show off his temporary tattoos @iamnuggetworld561 has 1.5 million followers.
However, she receives a lot of backlash online, from people who say that social services should get involved or that he’s being “raised up for prison”.
Shamekia said: “The backlash was horrible, it hurt my feelings because I know I’m not a bad mum”.
Despite the comments, Shamekia said that she does not regret covering her son in temporary tattoos.
She said that there is no safety risks from the temporary tattoos, and criticised those that judge her parenting based on social media videos.
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She said: “My opinion of being a great mum is being somebody’s cheerleader, being their go to person, their best friend.
“If you’re judging someone off a 30-second video on social media that’s your business, but what you say or think about someone isn’t going to determine where they will end up in the future.”
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