Today is a day for tattoo news, apparently. Rihanna is another one who has pretty awful taste in them, but she insists that hers have meaning. For instance, the gun she’s got under her right armpit doesn’t mean “danger: you don’t want to smell that”, it actually is a symbol for her strength as a woman and her insistence on not being a victim… or whatever.
“Everybody wanted to know what was happening in my life. Is she a drug addict? No. Is she an alcoholic? No. Is she a victim? No,” Rihanna said.
“That’s when I got the gun. It was a symbol of strength. I’ll never be a victim.
“That’s why I’m posting pictures of myself smoking pot, to tell the truth about myself. I’ve got so much to think about, why bring all this extra shit by being dishonest?”
She continued: “Well I Instagram everything about my life, whether it’s smoking pot, in a strip club, reading a Bible verse – how crazy, I know! – or hanging out with my best friend, who happens to be Chris [Brown].”
I think there’s a difference between being honest about your life and portraying yourself as the drug addict you swear you’re not. Like, girl, just no. Second of all, you’ll probably be wishing that gun tattoo was the real thing for self-defense when your best friend attempts to beat you to a bloody pulp again, which will happen, even if you both are stupid enough to believe he’s been redeemed.
More photos from Rihanna’s Elle shoot below.
Thanks to Evil Beet
