Kenzie Ziegler Leaves Fans Confused After Revealing She Got Tan Lines 'Tattooed' on Her Body

Kenzie Ziegler's sewage nan net burning up.

Before releasing her caller single, "Tans Lines," connected Aug. 22, nan vocalist took method dressing to a full caller level by "tattooing" nary different than existent tan lines connected her assemblage to beforehand nan song.

Earlier this week, nan erstwhile Dance Moms alum, 21, showed a behind-the-scenes look astatine her ink convention pinch Los Angeles-based creator Christian Delacruz.

The TikTok clip, garnering 10 cardinal views since its posting, showed everything from nan stencils and achromatic ink utilized to create bikini-like marks connected Ziegler's precocious assemblage to nan last results.

Ziegler didn't opportunity overmuch astir her caller appearance, but her fans ran pinch their ain commentary arsenic nan translator near galore of them shocked and confused.

Thousands of her followers either near memes aliases amazed reactions to nan star's caller look pinch a ample mostly of her followers questioning if nan full point was a joke. Ziegler hasn't straight addressed anything, including whether aliases not nan tattoo is permanent, prevention for liking a fewer comments.

The tattoo mimics nan screen creation for "Tan Lines," which shows a person, presumably Ziegler, successful bikini bottoms and an exposed tan line.

Ziegler released her first medium successful 2014 pinch Mack Z. In 2023, she told PEOPLE that becoming a musician was her “childhood dream,” and it is “really crazy” to beryllium pursuing it now. She's besides utilized her songs — 1 of those being 2023's "Anatomy" — to bespeak connected nan portion of her puerility that she antecedently kept retired of nan nationalist eye.

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“I was very hesitant to merchandise it astatine first conscionable because it is truthful personal, and I don't deliberation a batch of group cognize that astir me,” Ziegler told PEOPLE of nan wistful ballad, which reveals her tumultuous narration pinch her father. “But I besides deliberation that it could really thief immoderate group that are precisely for illustration maine to subordinate to this and not consciousness alone.”

"I decidedly americium stepping retired of my comfortableness area and being authentic successful a different measurement that’s not conscionable connected societal media — I’m telling my story," she added.