Melanie Lynskey gets tattoo drawn by her five-year-old daughter

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Melanie Lynskey has revealed the importance behind her new tattoo.

The Yellowjackets star, 46, lately unveiled her new ink and the particular artist who designed her tattoo: her five-year-old daughter. To ring in 2024, Lynskey shared a side-by-side photograph of the unique drawing her daughter made, alongside an image of the ultimate tattoo on her arm.

“I’m so happy to be bringing this adorable tattoo into 2024 with me,” she started her Instagram caption. “My thanks to the incredibly kind and talented @graeme.allan at @sacredtattoonz for doing this for me while I was in Aotearoa.”

“It’s a meticulous recreation of a drawing my five-year-old daughter did, and it reminds me even in the most challenging moments that there is true joy in my life and fills me with deep gratitude,” Lynskey defined, including: “I wish so much joy for all of you this year! And my big wish is that the world remembers about empathy.”

The tattoo seemed to be a drawing of a cat with whiskers and pointy ears. Lynskey, who’s from New Zealand, shared that she had the tattoo accomplished whereas in her residence nation.

The Don’t Look Up actor welcomed her daughter with husband Jason Ritter in December 2018. Lynskey and Ritter had been married in 2020 after first assembly in 2013 whereas filming The Big Ask. The two introduced their engagement in February 2017.

While the married couple are likely to preserve particulars of their household life non-public, together with their daughter’s identify, Lynskey lately shared a particular birthday tribute to her little one on Instagram. “The kindest, sweetest, coolest little person. I can’t believe how lucky I am to be her mama,” the Heavenly Creatures star captioned the publish, which confirmed her daughter standing on a mattress and masking her face with an outsized unicorn balloon. “Five years of pure joy,” she added.

Lynskey additionally shared that her sister’s associate made an allergen-free cake for her daughter within the form of a cat, with the phrases “Merry Catmas” written in frosting. It seems that her five-year-old may be very keen on felines, as Lynskey beforehand posted a photograph of her little one’s stuffed animal, named Meowy.

Back in March 2022, Lynskey acquired reward for thanking her nanny throughout her acceptance speech on the 2022 Critics Choice Awards. After taking residence the award for Best Actress in a Drama Series, she thanked her daughter’s nanny for permitting Lynskey to go to work realizing that her then three-year-old is in good palms.

“The most important person I think I have to thank before I finish is my nanny, Sally. I love her,” Lynskey stated. “She’s an absolute angel. She’s with my child and my child is safe and taken care of and she allows me to go and do my work.”

“Thank you, Sally,” she added. “I love you so much.”