Bye Bye Bellybutton Ring

By Buck on Aug 3, 2009 in Blog

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Last night I took out my belly button piercing. I had had it in since summer of 1999!
At the time, I thought it was so cute! I was 24 and thought I was 17. HA!
Now I am 34 and know I am 34 and didn’t think it was so cute anymore.

Also last night, I was cuddling Collin and his paw was in my belly button and quite frankly it was annoying me!

Some of you used to ask about it on the live shows when I would do a handstand and I avoided the question why my belly button was sparkling!
“Special gay lint” I should have said!

It was ten years and I think I kept it these last five or so years I only kept it as incentive not to get fat.
Becuase I would look down and if I saw it, I was thin.
If it was hidden, I needed to eat less that week (since you know exercice is not really an option for me!).

I remember showing my poor mother who was sick that summer and I am sure she was horrified! Just as my father was the following year when I showed my father my tounge ring (which only lasted a year!)

I always avoided tattoos because I knew one day I would tire of it. With a piercing, you know you can take it out someday.
Some of you pull off tattoos very well- I could not!

Rest in peace belly ring! You were totes cute for a while!
Off to have a Diet Coke for lunch! SHA!

xoxo Michael “Buck”
(rocking one less hole!)

  • froggurl03

    I didn’t know you had a belly button ring?!?! Wow!

  • Millie

    I have the same thoughts about piercings vs. tattoos. I have 9 holes in my body that I can choose to be shown or not be shown whenever I want depending on the setting. I feel that some day, I’ll tire of all of them and just take them out, much like you did with your belly button, but I don’t think I’ll ever get a tat. xo!

  • http://www.twitter.com/carlosinferi Carlos

    HAHA! I’m still wearing mine. 3 years and counting. ;]

  • http://www.twitter.com/omg_its_bea Beatriz

    aw RIP buck’s belly ring :(
    i want my belly button pierced!!!! but i’m afraid it’ll hurt!
    omg. you dirty little gay boy! you had a toungue ring?! :O badass!

  • http://www.twitter.com/Boon565 Ben

    hah totes awesome Buck!

    LOVE YOU! SHA! xo

  • http://Youtube.com/rippingfingers Marianne

    You had a belly button peircing *gasp* u dirty boy

  • Riz

    HAHA special gay lint

  • Rebeca

    I absolutely cannot picture you with a tongue piercing! lol

    Anyway, glad to see you’ve made peace with that piece of (FABULOUS) body jewelry. I will miss it next time I see you do a handstand. XD

    You’re mature and working it! Sha! :D

  • Buck

    hahah that should be my new tag line

    Michael Buckley
    “Mature and Working it SHA!”

  • Jennifer

    I feel as though people who get tattoo’s for the hell of it that doesn’t hold true meaning for them will regret. I got a tattoo of pawprint for my dog who passed away. Her name was Pitchie (Patches, but I couldn’t pronounce it)! My nana bought her for me when I was born and she died when I was 14 and that dog was the only thing I had and will ever truely love … therefore I know that I will never grow tired of it!

    You just have to get tattoos of stuff you know for a fact you will never regret!!

  • Buck

    yeah well that is very special and has very strong personal meaning :-)

  • Alyssa

    Aww Michael had a belly button ring! That’s so cute!
    <33 SHAA!
    Rip little belly button ring!

  • PittsburghChris

    Special gay lint! LOL

  • clicksmarter

    Gay Lint!
    Michael you’re a scream. But I can’t picture you having these piercings when younger, unless there was a “Wild Buck” in the past. My wild days began in 1984, senior year of college. I was told I looked like Sting so I had an ear pierced, hair cut and went to a Police concert. I arrived very early and walked around the arena in a trench coat looking very Sting-ish. People were asking for my autograph!!! I loved it.
    The pierced ear didn’t last long.

    This site looks good

  • http://wayword.tumblr.com SarahLynn

    I think it’s great when people realize how old they are and age gracefully. You’re making 34 look awesome! :)

  • http://www.realitytc.com RealityTC

    You can use it to pin together your nipple shirt!

    Thank goodness my mother did not let me get the Rolling Stones tongue tattooed on my boob when I was 15! She said my size A’s would grow and I would look like I had Gene Simmons on my boob. She was right! (As moms generally are… ha) I am still tat free and the list of tats I’ve considered is long & ever changing!

  • DuckyCondomz

    Oh Buck I agree.. Even tho I have both tattoos and piercings I do agree with ur theory. Thats how I talked my dad into letting me pierce my libret (below the lip above the chin. Even tho my dad is a tattoo artist I told him if I get this piercing and I keep it for a long time then Ill get a tattoo. I kept that piercing for years! I got it when I was 16 I just took it out and I am 21.(5 yrs) along the way I also picked up an eyebrow ring (only last 2 yrs) a nose ring that lasted 4 months (bc of work) a tongue ring that I still have 3 yrs in counting =D and MANY piercings in my ears all of which i still have but 1 bc of a rly bad infection. And then I have 1 lonely tattoo on my back… (My dad tattooed me then a few yrs later his apprentice touched it up and FUCKED it up *sryy bad word* but its true.) =( Now I am awaiting my next tattoo I can not wait! I still love all my piercings but I think I am getting a little to old for them, Thus why I have started takeing them out (i have taken the eye brow ring, and libret out in July of 09 and the nose ring was Aug of 08) No more piercings for me… Even tho I love them they wont help me get a job. Time for me to be an adult and take them out (IM SOOOO keeping my Tongue ring no matter what.. I would be lost with out it)

    <33

    Duckyy from Blogtv <33

  • E.J

    I totally want to give you a whole freaking lecture on tattoo removal techniques, but then again I get your point of getting sick of the tattoo eventually perfectly well, so you’re safe.
    I myself have 2 tattoos and 6 piercings- 4 in my ears, tongue piercing and bellybutton.
    Funny thing is, I live in eastern Europe (hah), and over here, nobody really reacts when they find out I have a tongue piercing, but anywhere else I go, I automatically get a LOT of dirty looks and shocked faces. Not that it bothers me too much.
    Btw, did yours leave a scar when you took it out?

    (Oh and about the incentive not to get fat – brill idea, but should try that with the tongue piercing, can’t see it – need to eat less…and no mirrors!)

    Take care

  • Katryna

    I KNEW IT! Haha, I thought on mulitple occasions (sorry I am just as bad at spelling as you are) that I could have sworn that I saw a belly button ring, even in a YouTube video I saw it, I kept rewinding cuz I was curious, but since YouTube doesn’t have a slow motion feature I couldn’t be certain.

    Anyways you should at least keep the belly button ring just to save as a reminder of when you were young. XD Oh and I don’t mean thaat you are old!!! You seriously look like you are 23ish! Long live youth!

    Love ya Buck!

  • Claire

    You had a belly button piercing?!?! You should have shown us when it was in, that would be a whole new look to you in our eyes…

    And then end when it said

  • Claire

    when it said “Rocking one less whole”

    Did that have multiple meanings? o__O

  • Lizzie

    Tattoos can be used as an incentive too, Buck. One day, I plan on quitting my teaching job and opening my own bakery. As a result, I’m getting a cupcake tattooed on some part of my body this month. I’m just a little afraid of the pain.

    Although piercings seem just as painful. Especially nipple rings- ick.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/MsRandom1994 MsRandom1994

    Thats awesome tht you had a belly button ring… my sister just got her tounge peirce not too long ago for her Bday. I made fun of her, she was talking with a lispe. LOL. But i wanna get my bellybutton peirced… it wud go good with my bikini… lol

  • Dylan

    I cannot believe I missed your handstands!!!!! :[ I will have to look for a recorded video hahahaha. love you :D

    SHA! <3

  • http://twitter.com/MsRandom1994 MsRandom1994

    Hey Buck, I got my belly button pierced today, it didnt even hurt :D No swimming for 2-3 weeks tho, it sucks cuz im a swimmer

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  • Baileewailee

    i kindof get why you would take it out but why not keep it in u all ready have it it can’t hurt and at least do a sow on it so we can know well got to go so please say more reasons why u took it out and never talked about it on the show.

  • guest

    hey i love it you so should have kept it be gay and show it … lol i get why you would want to grow up kand such … the funny thing is i use mine to keep me skinny to lol but like some other comments i would love to hear more about why you took it out on the show

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