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    Jelly Roll lied to his daughter about his face tattoos

    The 41-year-old rapper - who has Bailee Ann, 17, and Noah, nine, with wife Bunnie XO - revealed his eldest girl and her pals used to ask about the inkings on his face so he told the youngsters he had drawn the images on.


    In an interview with Taste of Country, Jelly - whose real name is Jason DeFord - said: "When she was in kindergarten it was so funny because all of her little friends would go, 'What is all that stuff on your face?'

    "I would go, 'You won't believe this, I only draw this on when I come see y'all so y'all are excited about it.'

    "Finally, they were like, 'How do you draw it on the same way every time?' I said, 'I got the little sticker things now because I been coming so much.'"

    The Wild Ones hitmaker noted that as Bailee Ann grew up, some of her friends' parents wouldn't let them go to their house because of his tattoos.

    Jelly recently laughed off his critics who think his face tattoos are a method of him calling for attention, and explained his inkings - including a cross under his right eye, a teardrop under his left eye, as well as "music man" across his hairline - do not define him as a person.

    In his cover story for Men's Health magazine, he explained: "It's the polar opposite.

    "The way shame sometimes shows itself is not always the way we expect it to be. We think shame is somebody in the streets on their knees, with their head down. But shame sometimes is pride. Sometimes shame is just bravado.

    "Behind real bravado, I can normally find shame. I can normally find guilt. I can normally find insecurity.

    "I was the biggest, the loudest, the toughest, the meanest, the growliest, the fattest. There's normally deep inside of that a really, really small, insecure human. I was that, for sure. Then a by-product of that was I got fat as f***."

    The outlet noted out that the All My Life hitmaker "may remove the face tattoos" as part of his "journey", which includes a 200lb weight loss.

    As well as face inkings, Jelly - who also told Men's Health that he has consistently shed between nine and 15lbs each month - also has tattoos on his body.

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