For the life of me, I will never understand the compulsive famewhore. I understand the selective famewhore – the celebrity, however A-list or however D-list, who tries to suck all of the attention they can get at certain times, usually for some kind of added benefit besides the sheer fact of “getting attention.” But I don’t understand the compulsive ones, like Lindsay Lohan or Kim Kardashian or LeAnn Rimes. Those three women will actively try to steal the spotlight with their budget-ness and busted-ness, even when it’s perfectly obvious that they aren’t wanted. Here’s an example: all of the big A-listers were in LA this weekend for the Golden Globes and all of the pre- and post-Globes parties. There’s no reason for Kim Kardashian to show up anywhere – she’s not needed. Same with Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. And yet they arrived, acting like they were just as relevant as legit film and television stars.

So, with that in mind, what did LeAnn Rimes do while no one was paying attention to her during the Globes-centric weekend? She got a new tattoo and she tweeted about it endlessly. Sigh…

He is the love of her life who barely leaves her side. But if ever LeAnn Rimes is ever apart from her husband Eddie Cibrian, she will only have to look to her foot to be reminded of him. The 29-year-old singer got the words ‘The only one that matters’ daintily tattooed on her foot yesterday.

The Country Music star explained that the phrase came out of a conversation she had had with her husband of just under one year. LeAnn visited celebrity favoured tattoo parlour Shamrock Social Club for the permanent etching. The inking was done by the shop’s owner Mark Mahoney, who counts David Beckham and Lindsay Lohan as his clients.

Of course the Country Music star posted a picture of the finished product on her Twitter account for all of her fans to see. She wrote: ‘Ok….here it is! It’s dainty. All of my tattoos are very feminine.’

Following the post, she received a barrage of questions from fans asking her what it meant, and LeAnn was quick to answer them. At the time of the tattoo, she took a picture of Mahoney getting to work on her foot.

‘Mark Mahoney ROCKS!’ she tweeted, posting a picture of the legendary Hollywood tattoo artist. LeAnn, who already has two other tattoos, explained to her followers that this time around she had no pain.

‘@tobrienz it’s visible in flip flops and yes very meaningful. It’s something Eddie said to me,’ she told one fan.

‘@cmo77 it came out of a conversation Eddie and I were having but yes, it could mean so much,’ she explained further to another.

LeAnn had the etching done on Sunday before going home to watch the Golden Globes.
The singer, who already has two other tattoos, explained to her followers that this time around she had no pain.

‘@Christina4jc I was surprised that it was not painful at all,’ she wrote to one fan.

[From The Mail]

So “the only one that matters” came out of a conversation with Eddie… meaning it was something she said to him or something he said to her. It’s probably an allusion to how LeAnn is “bullied” and how Eddie’s opinion is the “only one that matters.” Blah. Whatever. Here you go, LeAnn. We’re giving you some attention. There, there.

And you know what? I don’t even think the tattoo is “dainty”. That scroll is much too large.

Photos courtesy of Fame, LeAnn‘s Twitter.