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Nicole Richie’s come a long way since she and her former BFF Paris Hilton permanently scarred numerous TV view with their hilarious(ly stupid) antics on The Simple Life. These days she’s still all over the tabloids, though it’s with a much different activity list:  mother of two, fashionista, married to a semi-irrelevant pop punk icon and most importantly, living quietly.

Recently on the The View, she commented on how she would feel about her own children getting tattoos. Considering both she and her hubby are tattooed, I find the following statement  a little insulting:

I know I sound like a hypocrite, but I would be so sad. Joel has sleeves and his twin brother Benji has tattoos on his neck and his face. I’m just hoping that my kids will be so embarrassed of them that they’re not going to have any. It happens!

While I understand the desire to see your children grow up and be perfect, her statement is what strikes me as the saddest–not to mention most ignorant–thing she could say in an interview. Part of me suspects this may be a, “Hey mainstream America: ACCEPT ME! I’m wholesome and maternal now, see?” moment.

This leaves me with no choice but to ask all of you, parents or not: how would you feel about your children getting tattooed? What about them actively pursing heavy tattoo coverage, be that them following in your footsteps or not?

Before Betty White was hosting Saturday Night Live, Gretchen Miller showed her love for the Golden Girls with this tattoo. Since then, you may have seen her tattoo on the Ellen Degeneres Show (link) and it now even has it’s own Facebook group. The group’s purpose extends beyond recognizing the humor in her ‘Stay Gold’ tribute, but also to assist Gretchen in meeting Betty White. When I asked Gretchen about it, she had this to say:

I’m an actual fan, not just someone jumping on the Betty White bandwagon.

I don’t think it gets any clearer than that, eh? Join her Facebook group, help a girl reach her dreams or some other good-natured hippie shit.

For up to the minute tattoo goodies, nothing beats Twitter. That’s how I came across this photo of Big Gus with Carey Hart after tattooing his shin. It’s occurred to me that it’s a pretty serious compliment when someone who owns multiple shops still seeks you out to be tattooed by you.

I’m not familiar enough with Britney’s career to identify at what era this picture was taken from, but the face is unmistakable. When I searched for her on a Google image search, I couldn’t help but laugh and immediately gave up.

Whomever chose this tattooed picked a good era for Britney, it could have been much worse.

Tattoo by: Deran at Atomic Tattoos (Tampa Bay, FL)

In an interview with Access Hollywood singer Kelly Osbourne stated, “Don’t get tattoos, please, because you hate them when you get older. I hate them.” Kelly uses her piano tattoo on her arm as an example, as she got it while intoxicated and then she reveals can’t even play the piano. She simply blamed it on her “80′s phase.” Apparently tattoo removal is in the near future, but she hasn’t done it just yet.

I don’t even know where to start with this. Did she really just admit she was drunk during most of them? Also, who refers to her as a singer? I don’t think that’s an appropriate title. I also enjoy the part where she reveals she can’t play the piano – that’s a shocker.

I guess Kelly could always checkout the review of this Wrecking Balm Tattoo Removal kit. I’m shocked that anyone would think any of these would really work.

The bottom line is that Kelly Osbourne has “interesting” tattoos, to match her “interesting” life. That “interesting” life is the exact reason she has no business telling young fans not to get tattooed. Thankfully that demographic is minimal, and will hopefully forget her existence in the next five years. Maybe if her Papa would have preached a little more, she wouldn’t have drunkenly made so many tattoo mistakes.