I got the name of the man I was having an affair with tattooed on my body…it was to say thanks for paying my £5k rent
A WOMAN has revealed that she got the name of a man she was having an affair with tattooed onto her body, revealing that it was to say thank you to him for paying her rent.
Carla Bellucci, had a 10 year long affair with Giovanni Pincay, who was married, and eventually left his wife for her.
Just one year into their adulterous relationship, Carla got Giovanni’s name tattooed onto her wrist.
The tattoo cost her £80, and has remained on her body ever since.
Carla previously became the most hated woman in Britain, after faking depression so that she could back a free NHS nose job.
Speaking to the Daily Star about why she decided to get the tattoo, she said: “It was my idea and I didn’t even tell him at the time,
“I did it as an act of proving how appreciative I was of him because he helped me so much at that time like moving to London and taking me away.
She continued: “I just wanted to show him how dedicated I was to him and still am.
“He put down five grand for a house for me to rent because I had no money when I came and he got me all my furniture because I left Essex with nothing but my kids and clothes.”
The mum of four, met Giovanni on a modelling shoot, and said she would sometimes bump into his wife at his photography studio.
She said that she used to edit the tattoo out of photos, to hide the affair from people, but shared that she did tell her friends and family.
Carla, 42 said that her loved ones told her that she was insane, but she assured them that everything would turn out fine.
The former glamour model and Giovanni finally became official after 10 years, when Carla sent her lover’s wife pictures of them on holiday together.
The couple finally tied the knot last year, in a lavish ceremony in Cape Verde.
Carla revealed that if she and Giovanni had ever broken up, she would have followed in Katie Price‘s footsteps, and put a cross through her tattoo.
However, she said that she still wouldn’t have regretted it.
“To be honest even if it hadn’t worked out I wouldn’t regret it as he helped me and my children so much I would have always respected him.
“So I think a tattoo of his name is a small gesture in comparison to how he helped me.”
Despite this, Carla said that she would not be impressed, if her daughter one day did the same.
She said: “I would tell her don’t be a plank because nowadays nothing lasts.
“But if she did what could I say – I don’t have a leg to stand on.”
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The ink-redible ancient history of body art
Scientists have discovered the world's oldest tattoos on the arm of a 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummy on display at the British Museum.
The mummy, known as Gebelein Man A, pushes back evidence of figurative tattoos by 1,000 years.
The oldest tattoos were once thought to belong to a South American Chinchorro mummy who had a moustache-like design inked on his face.
It was initially thought he died in 4,000BC but in 2015 researchers found he is in fact younger than 5,200-year-old frozen mummy Ötzi the Iceman.
Ötzi was found by walkers preserved in a glacier on the Italy-Austria border in 1991.
Imaging using various wavelengths revealed a total of 61 tattoos: Geometric designs of dots, crosses and parallel lines.
Ötzi would have done lots of walking im the Alps and it is thought the tattoos may have been a kind of acupuncture to ease joint pains.
There is evidence of tattooing on mummies found in the Taklamakan Desert in China dating from 1,200 BC.
Modern tattoos of the kind sported by David Beckham are thought to have developed in Polynesian cultures over centuries.
The name comes from the phrase tatatau, meaning to hit or strike, which the British sailor James Cook heard when he reached Tahiti in 1769.