Lea Michele shares her love for tattoos

Her fans might never have seen her doing any much edgier than a Madonna dance routine. However, Lea Michele likes to be a bad girl away from the camera.

Michele plays the role of Rachel Berry on the Fox hit series whose finale season will be aired on Tuesday night. Recently, she flaunted more than a dozen tattoos and said that her ink addiction runs in the family. 

She was present there on Late Show with David Letterman when the popular star said, “I come from a very big Italian family, and tattoos are very popular. We’ll be like, ‘Let’s all get tattoos.’ “

She added: “Then we get super sentimental, and then the next day I wake up with, like, another butterfly on my foot. And I’m like, it seemed more important in the moment.”

While answering about the latest outing,  Easter, said the Broadway-turned-TV star, whose skin decor includes a bird on her hip and a butterfly – a nod to her 2006 role in Spring Awakening – on her right foot.

“Some people go hunting for eggs,” she told Letterman. “We go get tattoos.”

“All my secret hidden spots are done,” said Michele, “My real estate is over.”