Nancy Mace Shows Off Her Newest Tattoo on Her Podcast: Her Two Children's Names and Birthdates, Inked on Her Ribs
On her 'Get MACED' podcast, Rep. Nancy Mace lifted her shirt and showed off her newest tattoo: a color rose across her left ribcage, and above it a two-line script that spells out both of her children's full names and their exact dates of birth. It is the 15th tattoo Maceopedia has now cataloged, and it identifies a piece the record had only listed as an 'unknown' side inscription. Mace, who has built a public brand on child safety and on a parent's right to protect a child's privacy, chose to make her kids' names and birthdays a permanent, on-camera display. Maceopedia has redacted the birthdates in the image below.
"Keeping children safe online is not partisan."
Rep. Nancy Mace, in a statement posted to her official House page, February 6, 2026
Nancy Mace has a new tattoo, and she wanted her audience to see it. On her own podcast, "Get MACED," the South Carolina congresswoman pulled up the side of her shirt and showed off the newest addition to her ink: a color rose across her left ribcage. Above it, in a looping cursive script, are two lines of text. They are not a poem or a Bible verse. They are her two children's names, each paired with a date.
The image below is the reveal she posted, with one edit: Maceopedia has blacked out the two birthdates. She displayed them unobscured.
Nancy Mace shows her ribcage tattoo on "Get MACED." The script reads her son's and daughter's names, each followed by a full date of birth. Birthdates redacted by Maceopedia.
What the tattoo says
The top line is her son, Miles Emery. The bottom line is her daughter, Ellison Ann. After each name is a full date of birth, written out to the day, month, and year. The birth years match what has been publicly reported about her children: a son born in late 2006 and a daughter born in the spring of 2009. Below the names sits an American-traditional rose in full color, the same bold, saturated style as the roses and the hawk already on her arms.
By our count, this is the 15th distinct tattoo Maceopedia has cataloged. That number needs a footnote, and Mace has supplied it herself. She told Politico in early 2026 she had nine, gotten "in rapid succession." By late summer she was walking that up in public, telling NewsNation she "might have more than nine," and then telling TMZ on Capitol Hill on September 1, "I've got far more than nine, and I'm not done yet." The rib piece is one more past nine, and it also solves a small mystery in the record: the catalog had a script inscription on her left side listed as content unknown. This is what it says.
The part that does not fit the brand
Mace has spent a large part of her public life telling other parents how to keep children safe. She posted a video to her official House page in February titled "Keeping children safe online is not partisan." She sponsored the Protecting Children in Surrogacy Act, warning that "children are not commodities" and would not be "weaponized by predators." She sponsored Tyler's Law on child-product safety. She co-sponsored the DEFIANCE Act against non-consensual deepfake images and called that kind of abuse "digital rape." She chaired an Oversight subcommittee hearing on using technology to fight human trafficking, citing the more than twenty million tips a year that flow to the CyberTipline. She voted for the Parents' Bill of Rights, a bill built around, among other things, a parent's right to protect a child's privacy.
Then she took her two children's full names and their exact birthdays, put them permanently on her body, and held them up to a camera for the internet.
A full name paired with an exact date of birth is one of the most sensitive combinations a person can publish about a child. It is the pair that child-safety advocates spend their days telling parents not to post. One of the two children named here, her daughter, is still a minor. Her mother made the daughter's birthday a permanent, public record and then broadcast it to a podcast audience. Readers can decide for themselves how that squares with "keeping children safe online is not partisan." We are not printing the dates, and we blacked them out of the photo above, for the reason she did not: they belong to her kids.
One detail cuts the other way and is worth noting in fairness. The script uses first and middle names only. There is no surname on her skin. The children's father is Mace's ex-husband, Curtis Jackson, whom she married in 2004 and divorced in 2019; secondary reporting gives the children's last name as Jackson, their father's name. Whether the missing surname was a privacy choice or something else, only she knows. It is the one piece of the inscription she left off.
Sources & related coverage
- Her podcast: Nancy Mace's "Get MACED," where she regularly shows and discusses her tattoos. Coverage of her podcast tattoo reveals: The Advocate, Yahoo News, The Hill.
- Her child-safety record: "Keeping children safe online is not partisan" (House page, Feb. 6, 2026); Protecting Children in Surrogacy Act, H.R. 7293; Tyler's Law, H.R. 4340; "Deepfake porn is digital rape"; Parents' Bill of Rights vote.
- The count, in her own words: Nancy Mace Gets More Tattoos and Isn't Going to Stop (TMZ, "far more than nine"); Mace on NewsNation: "I might have more than nine".
- The full record: Nancy Mace's Tattoos: the complete catalog.
Maceopedia catalogs the public record about Nancy Mace. This dispatch is built on a photo she published herself on her own podcast. We have redacted her children's birthdates; she did not.
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