Isobel Varley

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Isobel Varley at the Tattoo Convention Amsterdam 1990

Isobel Varley (born May 21, 1937 in Yorkshire as Isobel Margaret Thorpe, † May 11, 2015 in Stevenage , Hertfordshire ) was a British woman known for her tattoos. She was first described in 2000 as the "most tattooed senior citizen in the world" and from 2010 she held the corresponding Guinness world record .

Life

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In 1960, Isobel Margaret Thorpe married engineer Malcolm H. Varley. Varley got her first tattoo in 1986 at the age of 49 at a tattoo convention at Hammersmith Palais, London . ("During the convention, I was immediately struck by the beauty of many of the tattoos I saw, and amazed at the diversity of the people I met there, who seemed to come from all walks of life"). When her husband introduced her to a tattoo artist named Bill Cooke, Varley showed interest and got a small bird tattooed on him. Her favorite tattoo was of a family of tigers on her stomach.

According to Guinness, Varley had more than 200 designs tattooed in a ten-year period, covering about 93 percent of her body; There were also 49 piercings , 16 of them in the genital area. Since she worked as a waitress at first, she left her forearms, hands and legs untattoed. Later, these areas were also provided with tattoos. In 1997 she had her last tattoo. She reported that "the only areas that are not fully tattooed are my face, the soles of my feet, my ears and some areas on my hands." Since 2000 she has been called the "most tattooed senior citizen in the world". In 2010, the entry in the Guinness Book of Records followed . As a result, she appeared at congresses, in various television programs, etc. a. on the Italian television program Lo Show dei Record , as well as in magazines and newspapers around the world. Varley developed Alzheimer's disease and died on May 11, 2015. She left behind her husband Malcom and their son Stephen.

Filmography

  • 2012 World's Greatest Body Shockers (TV Documentary)
  • 2008 Tattooed (documentary)

literature

  • Margo De Mello : Inked: Tattoos and Body Art around the World. ABC-CLIO 2014, ISBN 1-61069-076-1 , p. 235.
  • Guinness World Records 2016, ISBN 1-910561-03-7 , p. 61.
  • Douglas McCall: Monty Python: A Chronology, 1969–2012. 2d ed. McFarland 2013, ISBN 0-7864-7811-X , p. 180.
  • Stephen G. Gordon: Expressing the Inner Wild: Tattoos, Piercings, Jewelry, and Other Body Art. Twenty-First Century Books, Minneapolis 2014, ISBN 9781467725484 , p. 35.

Web links

Commons : Isobel Varley  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heather Saul: Isobel Varley: World's most tattooed female senior citizen dies aged 77. In: independent.co.uk , May 16, 2015 (English).
  2. ^ David McNeal: Celebrity Then And Now - Isobel Varley. In: Albany Daily News .
  3. ↑ a b Isobel Varley: 'Most tattooed female senior citizen' dies. In: bbc.com (English).
  4. ↑ abc.es: Muere Isobel Varley, la anciana más tatuada del mundo. Retrieved May 31, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Isobel Varley - She's a work of art! In: BBC Home , March 18, 2008, accessed May 31, 2020.
  6. ↑ The source names the profession as "Silver Service Waitress" [1]
  7. ↑ Oliver Pritchard: Family pay tribute to world's most tattooed senior citizen Isobel Varley from Stevenage who passed away peacefully on Monday. In: thecomet.net. The Comet, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Isobel Varley - She's a work of art! In: bbc.com , March 18, 2008, accessed May 16, 2020.
  9. ↑ Weird and wonderful world records anyone could achieve. In: co.uk. 2014, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Kevin Lynch: Isobel Varley 1937-2015: Most tattooed female senior citizen passes away. In: guinnessworldrecords.com , May 12, 2015 (English).
  11. ↑ z. B. on January 30, 1997 on the Frank Skinner Show, BBC I.
personal data
SURNAME Varley, Isobel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Margaret, Isobel (maiden name); Thorpe, Isobel Margaret (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Guinness world record holder, mostly tattooed elderly woman in the world
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2015
Place of death Stevenage , Hertfordshire