The world's most tattooed woman revealed - PHOTOS

Julia Gnuse - also known as the Illustrated Lady - has jungle scenes and pictures of her favourite actors and cartoon characters, including the Ginger Rogers, the Beverley Hillbillies, Popeye and Fred Flinstone.

She started covering up her body with the illustrations to tackle a painful condition she suffers from called porphyria, which causes blisters on the skin when it's exposed to sunlight. Although it doesn't stop the blisters occurring, it does cover the scars she is left with.

Revealing her tattoos at a BookExpo in New York, she said every design has been created by the same artist.

She told the Mail Online: "I had a friend who is a plastic surgeon, who suggested tattooing my skin to the same colour to the scarring that I had, seeing if we could match my pale-looking skin that I had.

"That didn't work... so I had the idea of a colourful tattoo. Then I got hooked. I got addicted."

Miss Gnuse said she had been put off medication for her condition because it carries the risk of blindness.


/Metro.co.uk/

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