She was named after Lionel Rose but is not related to him biologically. Ruby Rose Langenheim is Ruby’s birth name. During his childhood, he was close friends with her father. A controversy erupted in 2012 when Lionel’s family claimed Ruby had no relationship with them since her parents divorced and claimed that she was using the name Rose to advance her career as an association with Lionel. Although Ruby never heard from Lionel again after she saw him when she was a young girl, she says to have been deeply affected by seeing him.

“I met Lionel five or six times as a young tacker and he was a huge inspiration to me,” In an interview with the Herald Sun, she said. “I didn’t have a dad. Those trips to Lionel’s, while very few and far between, were everything. We had a crummy life, we didn’t have any money, dad was like `how’s it going?, but Lionel had a real impact on me…He passed away as my godfather. They can’t take that away from me…I love him – and if he’s looking down on me from heaven, I know he would be proud of the things I do.”

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Ruby enjoyed training as an amateur boxer as one of the ways she honored Lionel’s legacy. In November 2012, she added two yellow lightning bolts and the nickname “The Thorn,” which is what she is known as in the boxing scene. Since then, she hasn’t taken up boxing again. In the days around the time that she got the tattoo, she entered a few amateur fights.

• Vanessa Martinez Traditional Tattoo Design On Arm

The left forearm of Vanessa Martinez has an inspired space tattoo. This was the fourth ink she did, and it is interlaced with a crystal-filled triangle, which she also did at the same time.

She evokes the idea of femininity in the triangle, while the space reminded her of her fascination with space and her childhood desire to become an astronaut. On the left side, she has the Sun and the Moon, and at the bottom three small circles because three is an important number in the Universe. On the right side, she has Saturn, her favorite planet.