Skuse, a driver in the Women's Royal Army Corps based at Aldershot in Hampshire, had her first tattoo aged 17 in 1961, which resulted in her being put on a charge.

[2] Soon she was spending more than half her Army pay on getting more tattoos from her future husband, Bill Skuse, at his studio in the amusement arcade in Aldershot's High Street.

[1] For over twenty years she appeared in the Guinness World Records as Britain's most tattooed woman.

At one time there was a life-sized waxwork of her displayed outside 'The Guinness World of Records' exhibition at the Trocadero in Piccadilly, London.

On their retirement Bill and Rusty Skuse opened a boarding kennel and stray dogs home in Norfolk.