Dennis Rodman’s girlfriend Yella Yella and the portrait of her he got tattooed on his cheek.Photo:Yella Yella/Instagram
Yella Yella/Instagram
Dennis Rodmanhas some new ink.
Rodman went to Van Johnson, a star of the tattoo reality showBlack Ink Crew: Chicago, for the new ink.
“So I ain’t do too much today, cooled out at my townhome tattooed a living legends face of his woman on his face, that’s about it,” the Chicago tattoo artist captioned the post. “What y’all do?”
In an interview withTMZ Sports, Yella Yella said that the face ink wasn’t her idea — and she actually thought Rodman was “crazy” for wanting it.
“I actually told him not to do it,” she told the outlet. “I’m like, ‘What’re you doing?’ ”
Rodman originally wanted the portrait to be even bigger, causing his girlfriend to dub him “a wild boy,” TMZ reported.
Dennis Rodman’s face tattoo of girlfriend Yella Yella.Yella Yella/Instagram
“This is my last dance with a woman,” Rodman told the outlet, also calling Yella Yella “very lovely.”
He continued, “I thank her for loving me the way I am, and that’s why I did it for her.”
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Johnson also spoke withTMZand assured the outlet that Rodman’s ink is “really real.”
“He was a champ, he sat through it,” the tattoo artist said of Rodman, adding that he found the tattoo “pretty random,” but the former NBA player loves “the hell out that girl.”
The Chicago Bulls legend also uploaded a briefYouTube videoshowcasing the new ink to a new channel called “Dennis Rodman Yella Yella.”
“Oh my, god,” Yella said in the video, looking at the cheek portrait. “It is really me.”
Rodman shared a sneak peek of the YouTube video on his Instagram account, which he captioned “WHY NOT."
source: people.com
