The Large Outdated Tattoo Lauren Boebert Rarely Shows Off

If you thought Lauren Boebert looked different without her glasses, wait until you see the tattoo she's been keeping under wraps. For a spotlight-loving, headline-chasing political celebrity, the Colorado representative has been surprisingly cagey about her very large and very visible ink. And if Ginger Luckey Gaetz, wife to former Florida representative Matt Gaetz, hadn't casually posted it on X, we might still be in the dark about her sprawling tribal-style tattoo that wraps dramatically around her side and hip. The design is unmistakably '90s and aggressively generic, but nostalgia tattoos are coming back in a big way — and this is certainly big.

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However, what makes it even more striking is how ironic it feels. Tribal tattoos come from Indigenous Polynesian cultures, but Boebert's stance on tribal issues at home is loud but lacks depth. While she claims to support tribal sovereignty, she's rejected several efforts to protect tribal lands. She's dismissed landmark conservation projects, brushed off the Antiquities Act, which helps preserve Indigenous territories, and pushed for expanded drilling on those same lands. It's unfortunate and screams, "I'll borrow tribal aesthetics, but I'll push back against protecting tribal lands."

You might be wondering why Ginger Luckey Gaetz chose this particular photo to post, especially while Lauren Boebert is getting slammed left and right for her inappropriate outfits. And though Luckey Gaetz's 2024 caption praised the representative's body with, "We love confident, healthy, patriotic women like Lauren," we couldn't help but wonder if she was pulling a fast one by hyping Boebert up while quietly feeding the discourse.

But a closer look at the context reveals that, inappropriate or not, Luckey Gaetz seems to have posted the photo with a somewhat positive goal in mind. It all started when Representative Anna Paulina Luna's spicy video leaked online. It wasn't inherently scandalous, but she was wearing a MAGA bikini and showing off a lot of skin. Naturally, X users tore into her, with some criticisms dripping with misogyny and others pointing out how the look clashed with the conservative values she claims to uphold.

Luckey Gaetz's solution was to post bikini photos of multiple conservative women, including Andrea Catsimatidis, Erin Elmore, and Boebert, who is definitely the most recognizable of the group. And though this was supposed to be a solidarity move, it's hard to miss how the conservative women used the moment to stage a carefully curated "Women of MAGA" squad shot that put the spotlight on them and not their values.