Mom And Daughter Get Matching Tattoos They Hope To Never See Again

Tattoos are a very personal choice and everyone gets inked for their own reasons. However, normally a person will want to get a tattoo in a place where they can show it off on occasion, but can be covered up when they want it to be as well.

That’s not the case for Veronica Quintanilla and her daughter Victoria Vargas. After her mother’s second bout with breast cancer, Vargas decided that she shouldn’t be bald on her own and decided to shave off her sassy green hair for a much shorter look.

Quintanilla decided that she and her daughter, who went to all of her appointments with her and has been by her side from the get-go, should get matching pink bow tattoos to celebrate an end to her treatment.

“These tattoos are something special between my daughter and me, never to be seen again,” Veronica Quintanilla, 47, told TODAY. “I’ve been bald twice in my life because of cancer. I don’t plan to ever go bald again.”

“Cancer scars you — internally, externally, on your very soul, it leaves a mark,” she added. “This is something pretty, a pretty mark I’m choosing to add to my body because of this cancer and the point is to never see it again.”

The 21-year-old, who got a much smaller “baby bow” than her mom’s giant one, became very close with her Quintanilla during her heartbreaking second battle with breast cancer.

“It’s a symbol of my fight against breast cancer twice and of profound mother-daughter love,” Quintanilla said. “It reminds me of my daughter’s strength when I needed her there with me, and it reminds me of how much she loves me and how much I love her.”

Quintanilla said that she hopes in time that they will forget the tattoos are even there and her long journey to be cancer-free.

“Even though the rest of the world can’t see it, she and I will be the only two that know it’s there because it’s something special that we shared together,” she said. “She showed me a strength. I was so proud of her this past year.”

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[Featured Image: Victoria Vargas via TODAY]

Mom And Daughter Get Matching Tattoos They Hope To Never See Again is an article from: LifeDaily