Betty Broadbent was born in 1909 and during her childhood she was rather innocent. At the age of fourteen she was employed as a nanny in Atlantic City, New Jersey and took to wandering the boardwalk. It was there that she had a chance encounter with tattooist Jack Red Cloud and fell in love with the art form that would forevermore shape her life and future.
By 1927 Betty was well on her way to completing a tattoo body suit. Over 350 designs adorned her pinup model-like body, designs created and applied by notorious and revolutionary tattooists like Charlie Wagner, Joe Van Hart, Tony Rhineager and Red Gibbons.
"Cindy Ray (Real name Bev Robinson) was Australia's first homegrown tattooed (and tattooist) pin-up girl, but until 1959, Ray was just your average model. She had no tattoos and no interest in tattooing, until Harry Bartram, a photographer, offered to pay for her coverage.
By the end of her career, she was considered to be a confident tattooist and colleague. She tirelessly corresponded with her fan base and posed for hundreds of pictures, many more than she would have before she was tattooed. Her name was on books, tattoo machines, and jewelry kits. Sadly, Cindy had little to no input in the endorsement of these products, and even the promotion of her image"
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