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Betty Broadbent, the Tattooed Venus, was born in 1909 in the United States. By the time she was 18, her entire body was tattooed, and she was exhibiting her art with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. In 1938 Betty visited Sydney at the invitation of Australian sideshow entrepreneur Arthur Greenhalgh and performed at that years Royal Easter Show. Ray Olson took this photo as part of a Pix magazine cover shoot.