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Mom Slammed for Tattooing Baby

A tattoo-obsessed mom, herself covered from neck to toe in the body art, was slammed on social media for doing the same to her baby. Even though the infant’s tattoos are temporary, critics say it’s “gangster” and “thug.”

Tattoo-loving mom covers her baby in ink art

Fashion designer Shamekia Morris from West Palm Beach, Florida, appears to love tattoos. Photos reveal that she is covered from neck to toe in the art of body inking, doing the same to her son.

When her son, Treylin, was only six months old, she began putting temporary tattoos on his body, the Sun reported.

Now, critics are calling out Morris for continuing to cover her one-year-old son in the fake body art.

In a visit to Morris’s Instagram page, viewers can find numerous pictures of her baby boy in a variety of poses in which it displays temporary tattoos that cover his entire body. She also has over 319,000 followers on TikTok.

As a variety of media outlets picked up the photos, they went viral amid a huge outcry on social media, as viewers accused Morris of being a “bad mom.”

Thug baby? Bad mom?

The overwhelming criticism of Morris covering her baby in tattoos was that she was raising her son to be a “gangster” and a “thug,” according to the Daily Mail.

Morris posted a response on her Instagram page.

“I don’t care how anyone VIEW my parenting skills,” Morris wrote. “But the MORE the world gets upset, the more imma keep putting nugget tattoos on him.”

“He loves his temporary tattoos,” Morris added. “So why not tatt him TF. up.”

Morris also responded to the accusations in a video interview with Truly.

“I get a lot of backlash. People say I’m raising my son as a ‘gangster’ or ‘thug,'” Morris said. “They’re not used to seeing a baby with tattoos.”

“When I was eight months [pregnant] I did a maternity shoot with my brothers at a tattoo shop,” Morris continued. “I got bullied on social media. All the comments were negative.”

“The backlash has been horrible,” Morris says. “It hurts my feelings because I know I’m not a bad mom, and I get called all types of names. It’s crazy.”

She also slammed critics who accused her of raising a future gangster or thug.

“If you’re judging someone off of a 30-second video on social media, that’s your business,” Morris said. “But what you say or think about someone isn’t going to determine what they’re going to be in the future.”