My siblings all want me to get a 9/11 tattoo – they call me a party pooper for refusing but I don’t need that on my arm
ONE woman has flat-out refused to get a 9/11 art inked on her arm, no matter what her brothers and sisters say.
Though her siblings have urged her to get matching tattoos, she insists it’s not going to happen — especially because she’d be the only one with a tat seemingly commemorating a horrific terrorist attack.
Phoebe (@itsphine), 27, opened up about how she shut down the awkward tattoo in a viral video.
One of 11 adult children all living in Nashville, Tennessee, she has seven sisters and three brothers who are all two years apart in age.
They are so close that some of them suggested getting matching tattoos — but Phoebe isn’t on board.
“All of my siblings have matching tattoos except me and let me tell you why,” she began.
“I don’t want to get that matching tattoo, and everyone’s calling me a party pooper and all those things, but I’m just not getting it,” she said.
She explained that her siblings had decided on the tattoo to commemorate their bond.
“Where you are in the lineup, you get tattooed on your arm,” she explained.
“So the oldest one would get 1/11, the second oldest would get 2/11, my youngest sister has 11/11, my other little sister has 10/11.”
Unfortunately for Phoebe, her place of birth landed her a “9/11” tattoo.
“I’m just not super on board with that. Not that… 9/11, never forget. Haven’t forgotten it,” she said.
Phoebe explained that she simply didn’t feel the need to have the tattoo, which could be misleading to others, permanently on her body.
“Would you get the 9/11 tattoo or am I being crazy?” she asked.
The viral video, which has garnered over a million views, amused her siblings.
“We’re all very close and all have a great sense of humor,” Phoebe said to The U.S. Sun.
“It started with the youngest two. I don’t have any tattoos, so I doubt they assumed I would get it anyway!”
“In reality, only three of them have this matching tattoo, and no one is actually upset.
“They do think the TikTok is funny. My brother, who is 7/11, doesn’t have any tattoos either, and he makes jokes about him getting the 7/11 logo.”
A few viewers suggested ways for her to participate in the matching sibling tattoo in a compromise.
“I would get 11 black dots, and the 9th would be my favorite color,” said one commenter.
“Something small and simple bc ‘it doesn’t match the others’ but rightfully so!”
“Is there time for everyone to shift to a more graphical version? Like everyone has 11 frogs, but for you, the 9th frog is shaded in, for example,” suggested another.
Phoebe was impressed with the creative ideas.
“I will pitch this at the next family gathering,” she replied.