Katzen (performer)

Katzen the Tiger Lady is a female performance artist and tattoo artist, whose full body tattoo theme is that of a tiger. (Katzen is the German word for cats.)

Katzen
Occupationperformance artist, tattoo artist
Known forextensive body modifications to look like a cat

Childhood

When Katzen was 5 years old, she kept having dreams of herself covered in tiger stripes. When she was nine and living in Japan, she asked her mother to be tattooed and her mother said "Wait until you're 18."[1]

Tattooing

She received extensive tattooing on all parts of her body and wore tiger whiskers attached via piercings on her face. Most of the feline tattooing occurred between the ages of 18 and 28. More than 227 different tattoo artists have inked her up, including 23 at one time. Katzen removed her plastic whiskers after 14 years of wear because she started to feel that they affected her field of vision.[2]

She was at one time married to Paul Lawrence, who performed under the name "The Enigma," with whom she collaborated in a musical show team called The Human Marvels, and with whom she bore one daughter, Caitlin, who was raised by Katzen's mother. After divorcing, Katzen eventually moved on to have a son, Felix, and marry another man. That couple has since split. She works at a tattoo shop in Austin, Texas, and as a sideshow performer for the 999 Eyes Freakshow.[3]

See also

References
  1. Pain was worse than childbirth, but I made history, The Daily Star
  2. journalist, David Moye Pop culture; News, HuffPost Weird (2014-08-31). "Texas Woman Is A Real-Life Tiger". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  3. "999 EYES Katzen the Tiger Lady". www.999eyes.com. Retrieved 2017-01-25.


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