My teachers suspected I was poor because there were things I couldn’t pay for, but for the most part I think I flew under the radar.” I’d also get hand-me-down-clothes from church and create my own fashions, or at least I tried to. “When my family didn’t have access to a shower I would clean up at public restrooms every morning. “I may have been homeless with no money, but I was always clean and fashionable,” says the self-taught tattoo queen whose come a long way to now ink high-profile clientele and eager fans of the drama-filled show, “Black Ink”.
Young did her best to blend in with other, more privileged kids, even as she and her family moved around into church basements, abandoned houses, and even a shipping container, throughout her teenage years. So I kept it all a secret, as best I could.” They treat the less fortunate like shit, so I couldn’t talk to anybody about how I was living –not even my best friend. “No matter how hard you work, it is hard to break away from poverty -nobody gives you an opportunity. Young recalls the cultural reaction to her family’s suffering with clarity: “Korea is a materialistic country,” confides Young, now owner of the marquee Diamond Tattoos shop in New York City’s glitzy Times Square. Young’s mom, an artist herself, was consistently unable to provide and care for her children and members of their community refused to offer assistance. Using her natural talent - art - to overcome years of poverty, homelessness and abuse, and witnessing that of her mother and sister, at the hands of her father, alongside her mother and sister, Young managed to escape. A native of Seoul, Korea, Young Bae’s childhood reads like a painful chapter of “Oliver Twist”.
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