Tatu Baby

About

Katherine “Kat” Flores (born October 28, 1987), known professionally as Tatu Baby, is an American tattoo artist and reality television personality. She was a contestant on Ink Master season 2 in 2012, where she placed fourth, and season 3 of the same show in 2013, where she placed third. She starred as a main cast member in Cartel Crew (2019–2021), another reality television show based on people who have connections to drug cartels. Tatu Baby remains active as a tattoo artist in Miami, Florida.

Katherine “Tatu Baby” Flores was born October 28, 1987, in Miami, Florida, to Colombian parents. Tatu Baby’s father, a drug kingpin in Queens, New York, was killed when Tatu Baby was four years old. She does not reveal the name of her father on Cartel Crew; Distractify called him “infamous” and the Telegraph stated he was a “colleague of Pablo Escobar”, the Colombian drug lord. After her father died, Tatu Baby’s mother wanted to get out of the drug business for the safety of her family.

Tatu Baby started tattooing professionally at age 19. She names Nikko Hurtado, Jose Lopez, and Steve Butcher as inspirations. With six years of experience, she got cast in the reality…