Dutchess Lattimore Biography

Fast Facts

• Foraying into modeling, she won the 2010 Boston Tattoo Convention beauty pageant
• Performed at Miami's King of Diamonds strip club to raise money for her non-profit organization, GunPlay, which was founded to help women in battered women's shelters and young girls in runaway homes
• Sponsored several girls in her home state so that they could attend their prom festivities
• Graduated Cum Laude from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, earning her undergraduate degree in marketing and her master's degree in management
• Started tattooing while she was attending graduate school
• Quote: "When I finished grad school, I tried the job thing but my heart was stuck in tattooing․"
• Quote: "Who you are on the outside, if you don't act with that same sense of style, grace and poise, all of those looks can go down the drain․"
• Known as one of the tattoo artists participating in the "Black Ink Crew" reality series
• Though she worked as a tattoo artist at the shop where "Black Ink Crew" was filmed, she originally had no desire to be in front of the camera
• Showed an aptitude for art at an early age, and continued the hobby until it became her career