A heavily tattooed mother has slammed her child's school after she claims staff have banned her from attending the nativity performance due to her extensive ink collection. Melissa Sloan said that teachers have refused to give her a seat inside and told her to alternatively watch the show 'through the class window' due to her unusual appearance, the Mirror reports.
The 45-year-old mother previously confessed to having 800 tattoos all over her body, including her face as she admits to getting three new tattoos a week. However, the self proclaimed 'tattoo addict' has now opened up about how she is often treated differently because of the way she looks and that she's been excluded from multiple school events as a result.
The mum, from Wales, claims: "No Christmas parties and when I go to my child's school I don't get invited. They said once for me to go to the back garden, 'look through the class window' they told me.
"The teachers told me to do that, that's why I don't go to the school play." However, the nativity show isn't the only festive event Melissa alleges that she has been banned from attending.
Melissa, who lives in Powys, Mid Wales, revealed she also can't go to her kids' Christmas fayre and her partner, Luke, has to go instead. She claimed: "He's [Luke] going tonight to the kids' fayre as I can't go there as I'm not welcomed.
"I feel so jealous as I can't go there and to the Christmas fayre as I know what they're [teachers and parents] like towards me." Melissa has also previously said that her tattoo addiction has prevented her from getting a job and stopped her from being allowed to enter some local pubs.
She explained: "I still can't get a job because of my tattoos, I can't even go into pubs around here because of it. They say it's offensive, they don't like it - it upsets them in the posh pubs. I take no notice."
The tattoo obsessed mum usually has her ink done 'prison style' by her boyfriend at home. Melissa, who usually adds to her tattoo collection as often as three times a week, said: "I don't think I'll be having one [tattoo] around Christmas time I'll leave that as it's our time.
"I'll be selfish if I have one around Christmas. It's their [the children's] time, it's not about me.
"I'll go for the glory after that, I can't wait to get back to normal."
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