Nancy Mace has found a new way to grab attention. The South Carolina congresswoman recently went sleeveless on her debut YouTube podcast, giving followers their first real look at a set of tattoos she’s been quietly collecting. Mace, 48, first opened up about the ink back in February, telling Politico in a profile piece that she’d gotten nine tattoos in a short span of time. It wasn’t until last week, though, that she actually showed them off publicly, using her new podcast, called “Get Maced,” as the platform to unveil them.

According to what she told Politico, the tattoos were done between late 2023 and early 2024, a period when she was going through a breakup with her fiancé and simultaneously watching her entire congressional staff walk out the door. She described the tattoos as a way of reclaiming ownership over her own body, and said the process let her feel a kind of pain she needed to work through.

One tattoo that stands out is a literary reference, the opening line from Virginia Woolf’s acclaimed novel Mrs. Dalloway: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”

Last August, Mace jumped into the race for South Carolina governor, only to be soundly defeated in the Republican primary. Running for governor meant giving up her congressional seat, which will officially open up once her current term wraps in January, leaving the state’s first district without an incumbent.

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Speaking with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo last month, Mace acknowledged that the fallout with Trump might have cost her any future in politics. She defended her independent streak, telling Cuomo that she never came to Washington looking to take orders from anyone, which she said explains why she’s willing to clash with people on both sides of the aisle, something she noted has been a pattern throughout her career.