While almost everyone has seen the weird Ostrich tattoo on Steve O’s left bicep, not all know what it used to look like before or the somewhat bizarre story behind it that made him cover it up after others gave him bombastic side-eye reactions.
Steve O, whose real name is Stephan Gilchrist Glover, is an American entertainer widely famous for his outrageous and dangerous stunts.
Highlights
- The infamous Steve O’s left bicep tattoo of Ostrich with a man doing it on its back used to be a baby!
- He inked such disturbing tattoo on his body in 2006 while drinking with his friends and talking about how they don’t want a baby.
- Steve O later regretted about getting that tattoo on his body and so he decided to cover it up with an Ostrich.
Moreover, he prominently rose to fame as a member of the popular MTV reality stunt show, Jackass in 2000. In the show, Steve and his friends performed dangerous, daring, and often hard, painful stunts and pranks to gain public traction.
Later in the following years, Steve O starred in the Jackass movie franchises, which are Jackass: The Movie (2002), Jackass Number Two (2006), Jackass 3D (2010), and Jackass Forever (2024).
But that’s not it! He is also a stand-up comedian with a comedy special, Steve-O: Guilty as Charged, and a YouTuber with over 6.5 million subscribers who uploads his outrageous stunt videos.
What’s the before and after story of Steve O’s Ostrich tattoo story?
If you are a Steve O fan and have watched his videos, you must have come across his left-arm bicep tattoo of a man doing something disturbing to the Ostrich.
Although he has already explained the story behind it in one of his YouTube videos, where he explained a selection of his weirdest body tattoos, not many actually know how disturbing the Ostrich tattoo was before.
So, let me tell you that the Steve O Ostrich tattoo used to be an image of a man getting all intimate with a baby. Pretty disturbing, even for the guy who performs the weirdest and most bizarre stunts, right? Well, the Jackass star felt the same and regretted it instantly!
In the video, he revealed that he got that tattoo in 2006 when he was drunk with his buddies.
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Steve O recalled, “We’re talking about how we never wanted to have kids – or at least I felt really strongly about it. So I said OK, I’ll get a tattoo of a baby in a circle with a slash like a ‘No Babies’ sign.”
While he and his friends thought it would be funny at first, they later thought of getting a tattoo of ‘F-word Babies.’
But things took a worse turn with more drink for the entertainer as he ended up going with an image of a guy doing it to a baby. Steve O says he knew he was crossing the line but did it anyway.
Later, when he showed it to a couple passing by, he says, “They saw it and the look of horror on their face told me that I had actually made a serious mistake.”
After that, Steve O later chose to cover it up and turn it into an ostrich at the recommendation of his friend Bam Mergera. That’s how Steve O’s infamous ostrich tattoo was born.
Additional Information
- Born in 1974, in Wimbledon, London, England, Steve O is the son of his parents, Richard Glover and Donna Gay Glover.
- Wildboys star Steve O is of three nationalities, having obtained citizenship in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.
- According to various sources, Steve O has an estimated net worth of $4 million.