103-Year-Old Grandmother Gets Her First Tattoo
A grandmother in Michigan has gotten her first tattoo at the age of 103.
After staying inside her nursing home for months during the coronavirus pandemic, Dorothy Pollack decided to get her first tattoo. On August 7, Pollack got a frog tattooed on her arm.
"It was pretty exciting because years ago my grandson wanted me to get one and I wouldn't do it," Pollack said in an interview with CNN. "All of a sudden, I decided I would like to have one. And if I could, a frog. Because I like frogs."
"She took it like a champ. I didn't even see her wince," Ray Reasoner Jr., who tattooed Pollack, told CNN. "She was just so excited. It was an amazing experience. If someone over a century old tells you to do something for them you just gotta do it."
Reasoner said that Pollack was the oldest person he's ever tattooed.
On the same day she got the tattoo, Pollack took a ride on the back of Reasoner's motorcycle — another first for the 103-year-old.
Pollack isn't the oldest person to get a tattoo for the first time, however. According to Guinness World Records, Jack Reynolds from the UK got his first tattoo on his 104th birthday. In 2016, Reynolds got "Jacko 6.4.1912," his name and birthday, tattooed on his arm after raising more than $2,800 for charity.
