World's most tattooed woman looks unrecognisable before ink with ex 'who banned them'

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tattoo" and forbade her from getting one.But after he died Charlotte decided to get one, and then another one and now has hundreds of them covering 98.75% of her body apart from her face and fingers.READ MORE: 'Black alien' tattoo addict says people run away when they see himShe holds the Guinness World Record for being the most tattooed female senior citizen in the world.But some snaps from before her inking days show she looked rather different.

Pictures from her family albums shows a fresh-faced Charlotte wearing more conservative outfits like dresses and jumpers. Her hair is in a classic style - unlike the peroxide pixie crop she sports now.In another picture, she poses for a photograph lovingly with the late husband.It was through her love of the ink that Charlotte met her new partner Charles “Chuck” Helmke - who holds the Guinness World Record for being the most tattooed male senior citizen.The colourful couple are now well known not just in their home town of Melbourne, Florida, but also the world over.Now aged 73, Charlotte got her first tattoo aged 57 and hasn't looked back since. "I had always wanted tattoos and my now deceased husband wouldn't let me have one, even though he had a couple of tattoos himself," she said. "He said no lady should ever have tattoo, including his wife."A few years after her husband died she decided to "treat herself" for her birthday and took the plunge and got her first inking - a butterfly on her chest.It was while having tattoos that Charlotte met her current partner, Chuck Helmke.

During one of her early sessions in the tattoo parlour, he offered to hold her hand through the ordeal, knowing how much it hurt.The pair struck up a romance and between them hold several Guinness.