[2] Broadbent’s interest in tattooing began at the age of fourteen, when, while working as a nanny in Atlantic City, she met Jack Redcloud on the boardwalk.

This fascination would lead Redcloud to introduce Broadbent to his tattoo artist, Charlie Wagner.

When Ingalls discovered Broadbent’s passion for tattooing, he offered her a position at the circus.

In the same year, Broadbent began exhibiting her art with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

[5] After her return home to the United States and until her retirement in 1967, she continued to perform and travel with a sideshow.