Kelly Baughman

What inspired your most recent tattoo?

My most recent tattoo , my husband picked for me. It s skull with three Roes. He got very ill this pasted summer . Come to find out. He has congestive heart failure. And he was in the military. So his sickness is due to his service. He thought he was dying last summer and wanted to get one last tattoo together. He got his green feet put back . After losing them when he got broke in two on his last jump. He was a PJ in the Air Force. So he picked skull and Roes for me.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

It would say , I always knew you were strong and a badass goddess. You just lost sight of that . And went though some very dark rough times. But while you have lost all hope , of ever getting out of a church cult . You cried out . For help , and help came got you out. And your ink now tells how you can remember who you are . And you can rise again.

What would you do with the $25,000?

Some I would pay a few things off, the rest I would invest in the small community here. My husband and I have dreamed of buying the run down hotel here. And open a homeless shelter/ apartment s . Because most homeless here are vets.