Margaret Cho Korean Spa: Heavily Tattooed Comedienne Furious at Korean Spa, Says “I Deserve to Be Naked If I Want To"

Margaret Cho Korean spa experience in Los Angeles made her really infuriated, at least that's what it seems on a blog she posted at Jezebel.com.

The comedienne Margaret Cho sounded enraged in her blog post because allegedly, she was discriminated by the Korean women working at the LA Spa. Despite the fact that others can walk around naked, Margaret Cho was asked to cover up her tattoos (inked all over her body) because they upset other customers.

Margaret Cho wrote in her blog, "Perhaps I do get stared at a lot because I am a heavily tattooed woman, but I am also a Korean woman, and I feel I have the right to be naked in the Korean spa with other Korean women." 

The 44-year old comedienne and fashion designer were told by a staff to put on a robe to conceal the ink. But when Margaret Cho dropped her name, a staff member profusely apologized to her, explaining that tattoos are considered Taboo in the Korean culture and that her body is upsetting everyone in the spa.

However, according to the blog post Cho wrote, despite her complying to what the staff had asked her, she was "still being given heavy duty Korean woman stink eye."

What's the story about her tattoos? In an interview with Inked Magazine, Cho said that she decided to get tattoos so that her body will be completely covered by it and when she's already 70, people will not be looking at her wrinkles.

"They will be like, 'Oh my God! Look at her lizard tattoo," Cho said.

Margaret Cho's first tattoo was done just few years back by Ed Hardy. The tattoo mostly covered Cho's stomach, ribs and back. She said that it is actually an ambitious piece, as it was her first time to get inked.

Going back to the Margaret Cho Korean spa incident, the comedienne shared, "Their intolerance viewing my nakedness -- as if it was some kind of an assault on their senses, like my ass was a weapon -- made me furious in a way I can't really even express with words... I deserve to be naked if I want to."

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