If Kat Von D doesn't have a heart made of teflon, she's doing a damn good impression of it as the end of her engagement to Jesse James comes back to haunt her again and again. Any love affair ending is painful, especially when it was headed towards a wedding that will never be, but the 29-year-old tattoo guru is suffering more than most. Ironically Von D's chief tormentor is the one thing that also gives her solace - her business, the LA Ink parlour, which is promoted in her reality TV show for TLC.
Perhaps that's why Von D, who put on a brave face out in LA last week after momentarily losing her cool on a chat show, can deal with the pain of now dashed hopes being played out for the fans. We've already seen Von D ink the face of ex-fiance James, 42 , to her torso and next week the audience of LA Ink will witness Kat designing her dream wedding dress. We see one scene that depicts the ink-artist in fully-fledged Bridezilla mode as she shows her 'wedding folder' to reluctant designer friends, before describing her dream dress. The raven-haired beauty turns to the friends who are busily putting the finishing touches to the Kat Von D clothing line, which launches in the Autumn. Von D is seen explaining to her pals that both she and Jesse James want their wedding to be 'really special.'
'When I got married to my first husband we just eloped, I got married in my jeans,' Kat explains. Before adding: 'I don't want to have a dress that anyone else could have.' To her surprise her friends are hesitant at first and tell Von D: 'This is not what we do!' The bride-to be is Kat is obviously taken aback and stutters: 'I thought you guys would be more excited.' However, the women relent and study Kat's 'wedding folder' to get an idea of the style that she wants. 'Really organic and flowing and not structured at all,' is how she describes her ideal gown, before favouring a stunning red lace creation that they look at on her computer. Kat announced her split with Jesse on July 25, but the brand new season of her show focuses on her romance with Sandra Bullock's ex-husband.
In a tweet last Monday, Von D said: 'I am no longer w Jesse, and out of respect for him, his family and myself, thats all the info I'd like to share. Thanks for respecting that.'Two days later, Kat stormed out of the Good Day LA studios in Los Angeles, minutes before she was due to go on air to promote her new reality show. The drama unfolded after one of the show hosts, Jeff Michael, mentioned her ex Jesse James after they aired a preview of TLC show LA Ink, which showed Kat surprising her bad boy beau with a tattoo in his likeness. In an exclusive interview with Mail Online, Jeff spoke about the 'unfortunate and slightly comical' incident which he said 'left us hanging in the studio.'
'I was in the process of introducing her and we were airing the clip,' he explained. 'She was standing in the wings waiting to come out but when she heard me mention the break up she removed her microphone and just walked out.' Despite reporting the news of her split with Jesse on Twitter, Kat was not happy when Jeff highlighted that she had had the etching done just before the break-up. She even took to Twitter with a scathing message for the Good Day crew: 'Publicly disrespecting people for the sake of better ratings isn't something a person of compassion does. Good day.' LA Ink airs every Tuesday at 10 pm Eastern/ 9 pm Central.