It’s never too late to get inked.
Vanna White hit up the tattoo shop where her daughter, Gigi Santo Pietro, gave the “Wheel of Fortune” star her very first ink.
“I finally got my first tattoo, given to me by my talented daughter @gigisantopietro!!” White, 68, announced in the caption of an Instagram video posted Monday.
“I will think of her every time I look at it. 🩷” the proud mom added.
In the video, White shared that her “beautiful daughter” Gigi, 28, is a tattoo artist — but she didn’t persuade her mom to get tatted.
“She’s not making me do this. It’s my choice to do this,” White clarified while standing outside of the Lincoln Tattoo Company in Venice, Calif., before her appointment.
White said she decided to get a delicate heart tattooed on the inside of her wrist so she can “look at it every day.”
“Now the hard part is picking out which heart and which color,” White admitted.
The tattoo artist explained that there were “many shapes and sizes” for her mother to pick from.
“I think I want pink,” White said, explaining that she loves the color.
“I can’t see that for you,” Santo Pietro joked while staring right at White’s light pink sweater.
White said she was “shaking” as she narrowed her choices down to three different shades of pink.
Ultimately, she landed on her daughter’s favorite pink hue because it had a hint of salmon to it.
“It’s meant to be. We’ve chosen a color,” White said before looking at options on an iPad of the shape options for the heart and choosing a simple bubble style.
The TV personality fessed up to being “nervous” while seated in the tattoo chair as her wrist was disinfected and prepped.
“I can feel you shaking. No stress, no pressure,” Santo Pietro told her mom to calm her down.
White said that she couldn’t watch and that she “might pass out,” before she was hit with the needle.
“I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time,” White said. “I really have, I’m so happy.”
Santo Pietro agreed that she was “super happy” to find out that she was finally able to tattoo the former model.
Once the tattoo process started, White was pleasantly surprised to find that it didn’t hurt.
“That’s it?” she asked, adding that there was no pain.
Once the tattoo was complete, White said that the final result came out “perfect.”
“It’s just want a wanted!” she exclaimed. “It really is, Gigi! Thank you.”
Santo Pietro responded with a big smile, gushing, “You have a tattoo! Just like that.”
White wrapped up the video by giving Santo Pietro a hug and a kiss and flaunting her new body art for the camera.
White shares Gigi and son Nikko with her ex-husband George Santo Pietro, whom she was married to from 1990 to 2002.
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