Even before her mastectomy, Inga Duncan Thornell knew she didn’t want to have her breasts reconstructed. She didn’t want to go through more surgery and didn’t like the idea of implants. So when her ...

“The first time I looked in the mirror and saw myself after my double mastectomy, it was kind of shocking,” Maureen Matteis-Bilbee says. “I had major scars going straight across my breasts, and there ...

Tattoos are more than ink and pretty pictures. They hold stories, involve intimacy, and often sear with physical and emotional pain. Getting one has usually involved choosing a picture and biting down ...

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Last year, a good friend of mine, radio host Mike Opelka, visited the 18th Annual Philadelphia “Tattoo Arts Convention,” which he writes about as spotlighting both skin art and “tattoo regret” — which ...