BY Waleed KhanJul 10, 2023. 01:00 amUPDATED: Jul 10, 2023. 01:00 am
Who is Yella Yella? Dennis Rodman’s girlfrien
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Dennis Rodman has new tattoos.
The 62-year-old former NBA player demonstrated his love for fiancée Yella Yella in a very permanent way this week when he got a tattoo of her likeness on his face.
Rodman chose a black-and-white realistic depiction of the singer and model for the tribute, adding to his already large tattoo collection.
Rodman got his new tattoos from Van Johnson, a star of the tattoo reality show Black Ink Crew: Chicago.
In a video shared by Johnson on Instagram, Rodman’s girlfriend reacts to the tattoo, smiling and squealing with glee as she grabs his newly tatted face.
“So I ain’t do too much today, cooled out at my townhome tattooed a living legends face of his woman on his face, that’s about it,” the Chicago tattoo artist captioned the post. “What y’all do?”
In an interview with TMZ Sports, Yella Yella said that the face ink wasn’t her idea — and she actually thought Rodman was “crazy” for wanting it.
“I actually told him not to do it,” she told the outlet. “I’m like, ‘What’re you doing?’ ”
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Rodman originally wanted the portrait to be even bigger, causing his girlfriend to dub him “a wild boy,” TMZ reported.
“This is my last dance with a woman,” Rodman told the outlet, also calling Yella Yella “very lovely.”
He continued, “I thank her for loving me the way I am, and that’s why I did it for her.”
Johnson also spoke with TMZ and assured the outlet that Rodman’s ink is “really real.”
“He was a champ, he sat through it,” the tattoo artist said of Rodman, adding that he found the tattoo “pretty random,” but the former NBA player loves “the hell out that girl.”
The Chicago Bulls legend also uploaded a brief YouTube video showcasing the new ink to a new channel called “Dennis Rodman Yella Yella.”
“Oh my, god,” Yella said in the video, looking at the cheek portrait. “It is really me.”
Rodman shared a sneak peek of the YouTube video on his Instagram account, which he captioned “WHY NOT.”
