Gaia Wise pays tribute to mother Dame Emma Thompson by tattooing her footprint on her ribs

What do you get your mother for her 60th birthday? A special piece of jewelry or a designer bag, perhaps?

Well, Dame Emma Thompson’s daughter, Gaia Wise, has revealed that she celebrated by having a tattoo inked on her own body, of her mother’s footprint.

“The tattoo was taken from an impression my parents made when I was born and shows my mum’s big foot next to my baby’s foot,” aspiring actress Richard Eden told The Daily Mail at a red carpet event, where showed the unique design.

‘It was very painful because it hit me in the ribs. It was the first one I had done and obviously the more tattoos you have, the less adrenaline your body produces, so it’s more painful.

Gaia, 23, whose father is the second husband of Oscar winner Strictly star Greg Wise, adds: “I remember I was laying there and the tattoo artist kept asking me if I wanted to stop, but I just said, ‘Go ahead, I have to do this. It’s very special to me and my mom loves it.’

Emma, ​​who shares Gaia with actor Greg, hasn’t always been a fan of how closely her daughter has followed in her footsteps.

“The tattoo was taken from an impression my parents made when I was born and shows my mum’s big foot next to my baby’s foot,” aspiring actress Richard Eden of The Daily Mail told a red carpet event.

The Love Actually star revealed in August that she had subtly tried to talk her daughter out of acting, joking that she could “run a restaurant” instead.

She told the Daily Mail’s Eden Confidential: “I keep saying, ‘I know you like acting, but, you know, maybe running a restaurant can be just as exciting.

Despite other ideas from the Oscar winner, Gaia pursued her acting dreams, making her television debut in the 2022 series of the BBC drama Silent Witness.

Support: Emma, ​​who shares Gaia with fellow actor Greg, hasn’t always been a fan of how closely her daughter has followed in her footsteps

In the series, Gaia played college student Jo Reynolds, whose mother, the controversial health secretary, is murdered, sparking the interest of forensic pathologists.

Gaia has also previously revealed to the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden that she’s prepared to follow her mother’s lead and strip naked on screen, which the lady did in her film Good Luck To You, Big Leo.

Gaia said: “If it’s professionally prepared and you have the right kind of protection around you, then it’s absolutely fine.”

Gaia shared a close bond with both parents and previously credited her parents with saving her life by staging an emergency intervention.

Anorexia is a serious mental illness in which a person restricts their food intake, often causing them to be much underweight. Many also exercise excessively.

The aspiring actress developed anorexia at the age of 16 that left her so thin she couldn’t even sit in a chair without pain. She later entered rehab in 2017.

Speaking about her illness for the first time with The Sun on Sunday, Gaia opened up about how Greg, Emma and their family, including her brother Tindy, 36, and their best friend came together for an intervention, with Gaia agreeing to a three-year months. rehab period after Greg said, ‘I don’t know where my son is anymore.

Adding that it was a “kick in the teeth”, he added: “I had to listen to the people I loved the most in the world that, at that point, I had really forgotten about, tell me what I was doing.”

She said: ‘That’s when I said I was going to rehab. I went on December 29, 2017 and stayed for three months. Since then I have received a lot of therapy, and I will always be grateful for that, because it saved my life.’

Twins: Dame Emma’s daughter looked every inch a mini-me in her TV debut (Emma in the 1982 TV comedy series Nothing to Worry About and Gaia in Silent Witness)