Kimberley Vlaeminck nieuwste sterretje van internet

Rondom de Belgische Kimberley Vlaeminck is inmiddels een ware hype ontstaan op internet.
Het 18-jarige meisje uit Kortrijk was naar ‘Tatoo Box’ gegaan om naar eigen zeggen 3 sterretjes in haar gezicht te laten tatoëren. Toen tatoeëerder Rouslain Toumaniantz klaar was bleken het er echter 56 te zijn!

Volgens Kimberley had ze meerdere malen duidelijk gemaakt dat ze maar 3 sterren wilde, maar de communicatie verliep nogal stroef:

Die man sprak enkel Frans. En dat was een probleem: ik spreek enkel Nederlands en een heel klein beetje Engels.

Volgens de tatoeëerder was Kimberley aanvankelijk ook blij met de 56 sterren, maar veranderde dat toen haar vader binnenkwam.
Je zou verwachten dat je toch wel merkt dat er meer dan 3 sterren geplaatst worden op je gezicht, echter beweerd Kimberley in slaap gevallen te zijn tijdens de sessie.
Onmogelijk verklaard Toumaniantz:

Slapen als je in je gezicht wordt getatoeëerd, dat is onmogelijk. Omdat het gewoon te veel pijn doet. Dit is een heel vreemd verhaal. Dat meisje heeft die sterren gevraagd. En ik heb ze haar gegeven.

Overigens is het niet al te slim van het sterren-meisje om zo de publiciteit op te zoeken wanneer je je ongelukkig voelt van de verkeerde tatoeage:

Die sterren moéten weg. Hoe sneller, hoe liever. Want iedereen die me ziet, zegt het: zo kun je niet gaan werken. Ik durf zó niet naar buiten. Omdat ik te lelijk ben.

Door de publiciteit op te zoeken is er een totale hype op internet ontstaan, met Kimberley als middelpunt. Naast alle flauwe (maar wel leuke) grappen is er ook een heuse fanclub met de titel “Fansite Kimberley ‘56 sterretjes’“. De fanclub bedraagt inmiddels al meer dan 10.000 leden.

Inmiddels heeft tatoeëerder Rouslain Toumaniantz een statement uitgebracht rondom de hype:

Pictures of Kimberley Vlaminck taken just after the tattoo session (I take quite often pictures of my work) as they were seized by police shortly after, showing clearly that she’s no way surprised by the result of the work, and definitely not looking like a girl waking up after a nap and discovering that she’s had 56 stars tattooed on her face instead of three.

 

Having been accused by Kimberley Vlaminck to have tattooed her against her will and while she was sleeping, I want to react here to those calumnious allegations and to say exactly how things went.

First of all I’d like to say that the girl is complaining to have asked for only three stars and to end up with around fifty on her face. But as a matter of fact, she now asks to have a part of them lasered off and still wants to keep something like 20 or 25 stars on the forehead (as it can be seen on various TVs and in police reports), which means that this part of her accusation is totally irrelevant.

Then, the girl said she felt asleep during the tattoo session. But :

1)    Tattoo hurts,
2)    Tattoo hurts more on face than on most other places,
3)    Tattoo hurts even more on the nose than on the face,
4)    Apart from the pain factor, the emotional impact of a first tattoo is huge, which makes it even less likely to sleep during such a session,
5)    During this tattoo I had to ask Kimberley to change quite often her position, because the face isn’t flat and you need to always adjust the persons position and yours to be able to tattoo,
6)    Kimberley did stand up many times during the session and did check up the work in a mirror,
7)    We spoke during a part of the session,
8)    The call log of her mobile phone and SMS activity could easily show that from the start of the session to its end she wasn’t sleeping,
9)    And most importantly, a witness, being totally independent from both sides saw all the session from its start to the end, and confirms every word above. Kortrijk police made an inquiry, and both of us (me and the witness) were conducted shortly after Kimberley tattoo was finished to the police station, and both of us said exactly what did happen, and therefore gave exactly the same version of the events. Copies of minutes (in Flemish) we can provide.

So Kimberly was absolutely aware of what was happening during all the tattoo session and got what she asked, no more no less.

Moreover, I’d like to insist on the fact that the media buzz that’s making this whole affair so popular at the moment is based on the reaction of most people to the view of the tattoo. Still, you have to understand clearly that she doesn’t ask at the moment to have it removed, but just want a part of it removed.

Plus, to get this tattoo done she was accompanied by her father, who left her to get some beers (and not ice creams, as opposed to what he told to media and as it was proved by his breath) exactly when we started to design Kimberley’s tattoo on her face.

Without judging anybody here (positively or negatively), we’re not talking about a totally ordinary demand, and we’re not talking here about a totally ordinary family

    Besides all those elements, what is clearly astonishing and unacceptable is the runaway in the media and the ability for most of them (papers, radio or TV) to relay derogatory and calumnious information without a hint of evidence, without checking up anything and without any kind of care for truth, the priority being quite obviously sensationalism and media impact even if it has to destroy anything on the way.

But what is even more despicable is some capacity in the media to meticulously get rid of the elements that could make the story a little bit less interesting to read and the voluntary concealing of simple and irrefutable arguments.

Still, from the very start, when some “journalist” hears of such stuff like « she slept during her first tattoo on her face », he could be a little bit more careful before deciding to put instantly such bullshit as the big news of the front page.

Tattoo Box
Rouslan

Update:
Hoewel de tatoeëerder aanvankelijk alleen een klein korting op een volgende tatoeage wilde geven, heeft hij inmiddels aangeboden om de dure laserbehandeling voor het verwijderen te willen betalen.
Kimberley vertrouwd het echter niet helemaal en heeft een advocaat in de arm genomen, die er op moet toezien dat Toumaniantz inderdaad alle kosten voor het laseren zal betalen.

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Wanneer je jezelf ook van de nodige (virtuele) sterretjes wilt laten voorzien, kun je dat heel eenvoudig doen met een webcam en de ‘Kimberlizer‘.

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