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"Don't get any abdominal work done before you're finished having kids," advises Karina Mayorga, co-founder and owner of Ink Ink tattoo shop in Venice, California. "These tattoos can get distorted with pregnancy and may need to be covered or removed." A similar thing can happen with tattoos near the hips and breasts.
If you need a horror story, tattoo aficionado Cristina Trecate recalls, "Someone in my mother's Lamaze class had Porky Pig tattooed on her stomach. As she got bigger during pregnancy, the tattoo stretched and became unrecognizable and disproportioned. When she had the child, it never went back to normal." Because the only thing worse than a Porky Pig stomach tattoo is a distorted Porky Pig stomach tattoo.
Importantly though, regular weight fluctuations usually don't do the same damage. "Our skin is pretty elastic," says Los Angeles tattooist Zoey Taylor. "Unless we lose weight so quickly that we have excess skin, or gain weight so quickly that we get stretch marks, our skin does a pretty good job of adapting."
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