10 Things You Didn't Know About Olivia Wilde

8. She Got Her First Tattoo At Age 13

Olivia Wilde's naughty side cannot be discounted; when she was growing up, and despite a supportive family and home life, she decided to be a major rebel, and often did things to purposely appear rebellious. Like, oh, getting a tattoo - when she was just 13-years-old! How does something like that even happen? It's madness! According to Wilde, her parents were not happy with her when she was a teenager because she didn't understand boundaries and used to go off and do whatever she wanted - usually on a whim.
"I was 13 and I got a tattoo to be rebellious. And my mom, when she saw it, I didn't get the reaction I wanted. She was like, 'Wow, if I was gonna get a tattoo, I probably would have gotten something else.' It's a dragon spitting fire, and the fire is also a shark. It was my 13-year-old vision of wind, fire, and water. It's on my lower back. Very lower back, very lower back."
According to Wilde, she went about with this attitude - and did things like getting a tattoo at 13 - because she had always imagined herself dying young, for some reason. Erk.
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