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Thursday Oct 05, 2006
Every BODY Has a Story: Theda Bera
"This image is from a photo of Theda Bera, the silent film star. She was known as Hollywood’s first sex symbol. I’ve actually loved this rare photo of her since I was a little girl.
My dad had a record shop, and this was one of the photographs in the shop. From a young age, I remember thinking about how attracted I was to the dark beauty– it’s a style that has always been intriguing to me.
Theda Bera is best known for her lead in one of the first film versions of Cleopatra. She had the reputation of a vamp, and this was played up by Hollywood in films that suggested she was a vampire. This was my first tattoo and I wanted the image as a tattoo for years before I turned eighteen.
When my dad sold the record shop, the picture disappeared somewhere. I thought it would be easy to find, but I tried everywhere. All the research I did turned up nothing. Soon after, I was walking down the street and amazingly, the exact photo was on a poster for a local band! I used the flier to get the drawing.
People ask me a lot if it’s a picture of me, and it’s kind of weird. I do feel this odd connection with Theda Bera, I’m not exactly sure why. When I got the tattoo, my parents were very nervous about the whole idea. It took three and a half hours to finish, and the work was done by Mathew Madison at Tigerlily Tattoo. When I got home and showed my parents, they ended up loving it. They had waited up for me to get home in order to see the tattoo of Theda."
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