To think this is one of the saddest personal stories I've read

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It's very sad that her life has gone that way and she has so little self worth :(

It wasn't the saddest story I've read by a very long shot, but those blisters were horrible!

I got to the part about her ex bf referring to himself as 'the tree wizard' and could go no further.

Utter rubbish. Trying to be unique and get some attention, no doubt she'll be on a chat show soon.

Sorry she's had her heart broken but so has pretty much everyone.

It is very sad for her, and I hope she manages to find peace. But coincidentally this article, "What it's like to pee for the first time after female genital mutilation", was also on the BBC website today, and that I think is up there as one of the saddest things I have read (and also a tribute to the enormous courage of Hibo Wardare and her determination to change things for the better for her daughters and her daughters' contemporaries).

Hah. I knew it'd be about the tattoos.

No. Not sad. Seriously.

The pictures from this article that show the reality of tattoo removal should be shown to everyone wanting an inking - particularly those wanting a lover's name etched on their skin.

My bil had a massive tattoo removed from his back, he said it was horribly painful and eye-wateringly expensive.

Let that, and this, be a lesson to impulsive young squirts.

I've eaten sadder things than that story.

I am sorely tempted to retrain in laser tattoo removal, it is surely guaranteed buckets of cash.

It's a shame she didn't use her story to warn other young people that tattoos should be considered carefully and not a decision to be taken lightly.

The laser removal is very costly, painful and leaves scarring.
She seems very deluded to have kept getting tattoos, regretting it and covering it with another inking in some sort of pursuit of happiness or search for attention. She now seems to believe she will find happiness or peace having them all painfully lasered off. It wont fix anything in her head.

A tattooist I work with showed me that article earlier. I just wanted to tell her to get her fucking chin out of her navel and MOVE. ON.

It's another way of getting attention. I've experienced a lot of the same things she has, without the privileged upbringing - so have loads of other MNers, I'd wager - but Christ alive, I've never felt the urge to be interviewed about it.

Left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm glad I'm not the only one. And no, it's certainly NOT one of the saddest things I've ever read.

The lack of self worth that she has makes me think it's very sad, yes. Obviously lots of other things that people go through are worse than this but when talking about one individual who clearly values herself so little, yes, I think that it's very sad for somebody to hate themselves so much. By personal story, I was meaning a story that is about one individual and their own views of themselves, not the sort of stuff you get to do with bereavement and so on which is awful on a different scale.

Lurcio, thanks for sharing Hibo's story. What a brave woman.

She made the mistake of getting her partner's name/image on her multiple times .

Forgive me if I'm not brimming over with sympathy but really, you'd think she'd have learned from the first one.

Exbf referring to himself as a tree wizard

Still can't see it op. You need perspective.

Well that certainly wasn't what I was expecting. Yabu.

Is it a Cautionary Tale for David Beckham? No interest here for anyone else.

I've eaten sadder things than that story

But no OP, this was emphatically not one of the saddest stories I've ever read. Nor was it well told. Not sure what the point of telling it so publicly is really.

Oh hang on...

Nineties - I know...generally, that would be the signal to make your excuses and leave, not get a tattoo of that gentleman

While I have some sympathy for her she does come across as self absorbed. The saddest thing I read today has been children in Nepal being sold as sex slaves. People having limited control over their lives that they resort to selling kids to brothels. This pity me story doesn't really cut it the same

It is sad someone has so little self worth but I've read much worse. I also really want to pop those blisters,

You need to get out from under that rock and have a closer look at the world. It looks sad to me that this is one of the saddest stories you ever came across.

I feel sorry for her confusion.
It is a long way from the saddest story I've read.

She regrets symbolising her identity with marks on her skin.
She wants to start afresh, with a new identity.
She is symbolising this by erasing the marks on her skin.
Ahem ... quite a lot of work still to do there, Tass.

I liked some of her tattoos so much, they made me think again about getting one!

No. She comes across as self-absorbed and narcissistic but not really tragic. There are really tragic stories. This somehow doesn't come into the category for me.