

The reality show helped him gain a lot of attention and fame. Teddy began as a sidekick but quickly rose to prominence as the show’s star.

A tattoo parlor owner’s life is depicted in this book. The show debuted in 2013 and has been on since then for a total of nine times. Currently, he is serving as the shop’s assistant managerīecause of the shop’s popularity, a reality show called Black Ink Crew was born. He gained his cousin’s trust and demonstrated his managerial abilities over time. Tattoos that he created for customers were some of the best in the business. To get away from the streets, he applied for a job at a tattoo parlor. The tattoo artist is employed by Harlem, New York City’s Black Ink tattoo parlor.

Further education took place in English and Management at an exclusive private university. Tattoo artist attended elementary and high school in New York City. Teddy Ruks was born on January 26th, 1983, under the sign of Aquarius, the water bearer. Teddy Ruks will be 38 years old in January of 2022 when this article is published. Hit the flip to check out photos of the beauty, as well as to learn more about her journey.A post shared by teddyruks_ How old is Teddy from Black Ink? She’s still successfully running her own tattoo shop in North Carolina, Pretty n Ink, and has even got into doing hip-hop music. Things have been great for Lattimore ever since her departure. The devil is really in this and I can’t do it.” When they did that, that’s when I was like, y’all ain’t of God. These muthaf–kas was telling me I couldn’t go to my own grandma funeral ’cause I had to film, y’all. I felt so f–ked up because I literally hadn’t gone home in damn near a year.

I lost my grandma while I was on the show. “When I left the show, I went through therapy,” she said.
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She said, ‘Dutchess you got a back door?’ I said, ‘Yes, ma’am.’ She said, ‘I want you to go out this back door and get the f–k away from here as far as you can ’cause I’ll be damned if they gon’ make you look like this.'”ĭrama with Big Fish (a company that recently lost its ability to produce shows with ViacomCBS after they got rid of footage of a police involved death of a Black man on their now defunct A&E series Live PD) as well as issues with co-stars and former fiancé Ceaser Emanuel, sent her on a tailspin once she finally cut ties with the series. She told me what they was trying to do to me. The lady that they sent in there to tell me that sh-t, I had just done a tattoo for her like a month ago,” she said. “The day I put Cease’s shoes out on the corner, on the street, do y’all know they called the f–king crazy house to come get me and told the lady to put me in a f–king straitjacket for cameras? But let me tell you how good God is. “They are a group of racist white individuals that created a relationship with Viacom to further the propaganda of what I feel racism is in this country,” she said, going on to share an incident that crossed the line. What drove me crazy more than that was the group of white producers that was literally instigating ignorance and negativity trying to make you feel like you really are f–kin’ crazy,” she said. “I’ll tell you what drove me crazy more than that. She said going from Lillington, North Carolina to NYC to being on national television was stressful enough, but nothing was more stressful than the actions of production. This sh-t ain’t for me,'” she said.īut she stayed for five seasons due to her contract and had issues with the production company behind the series, Big Fish Entertainment. “When I started seeing they was playing with that, that’s when I was like, ‘Yeah, I don’t know. She said that she began to notice that the series was going in another direction after Season 1, and that it became less about the craft of tattooing and the lives of those who do it, and more about portraying cast members in a negative light. “You really have to have a certain level of disdain not only for yourself but for Black people in general, to want to watch something that you keep seeing Black people, and they never come to a place of success.
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“Reality TV is meant to diminish mental health not only for the people on the show but for the people that watch the show,” she said. Dutchess Lattimore said her experience being on Black Ink Crew was so dysfunctional that when she completed her contract and cut ties with the show in 2018, she realized it had taken a serious toll on her mental health.ĭuring an interview with podcast Talk of the Town Unfiltered recently, the former reality star, tattoo artist, rapper (bet you didn’t know) and businesswoman said she realized that shows like Black Ink were meant to do harm to the people on it and the Black community at large.
