Isabelle Cornish shows off her massive new leg tattoo

Australian actress Isabelle Cornish has just revealed her massive new leg tattoo. 

On Saturday, the 25-year-old proudly showed off the impressive artwork which is wrapped around her entire lower leg.

The Puberty Blues star shared some images of the inking on Instagram and told fans not to listen to critics, after she was judged for the design.  

The stunning design paid homage to her love of nature and featured intricate flowers, a butterfly, a snake and the face of a leopard.

Isabelle revealed she was ‘in the chair for eight hours’ while the inking was completed.

‘Beautiful but bad**s,’ the younger sister of actress Abbie Cornish, 37, captioned her Instagram post.

Isabelle went onto explain that many people were surprised by the size of her inking.

‘It’s quite funny the “idea” people get in the mind about who or what others should be. They create a picture in the head and mind of what someone else should or shouldn’t do…’ she said. 

‘The other thing I came across when getting a tattoo was a shock from others. “Oh, your’re game getting one so big.”

But Isabelle explained she had been planning the design since she was 15, so saw no reason to go ‘small’ and was ‘very happy’ with it.

She concluded: ‘Don’t do what others do, do you! Don’t be what others want you to be. Be you.’

It comes after Isabelle spoke candidly about her past struggles with body image. 

Last week, she revealed that she had ‘despised’ her body for a year-long period while trying to keep up with the modelling industry’s standards.

The Puberty Blues star shared a photo to Instagram of herself in turquoise lingerie as she explained how ‘being skinny will never make you happy’.

‘For years I despised my body. I hated the thought of having the shape I have now,’ Isabelle wrote alongside the photo of her backside and thighs.

She added: ‘I spent my critical coming-of-age years working in the entertainment and modelling industry.

‘These environments did bring many unhealthy influences and conditionings, but I take full responsibility for what outside influences created in my world.’  

Isabelle went on to explain that she hadn’t yet understood or accepted the ‘true beauty of the human form’ as a teenager and young adult.

‘I didn’t understand that it’s worth should never be defined to an external image,’ she said.

‘To all the young women out there that are scared to embrace feminine curves. Let me tell you this: Being skinny will never make you happy but embracing and loving yourself will.’