Nicola Sturgeon has shared her first-ever tattoo during a guest appearance at an Edinburgh Fringe show.

The former first minister guest-starred at the Women of the World (WOW) Show on George Street on Wednesday.

At the end of the event, the 54-year-old showed her new ink to the audience.

“Here’s an ambition I’ve always had that I’ve fulfilled recently,” Sturgeon said.

“I got a tattoo. When I phoned my mother to tell her, she thought I was kidding.”

Sturgeon described the wrist tattoo as an infinity symbol with an arrow on the end.

“It’s a symbol of strength,” she added. “It means something to me.”

The former SNP leader also said she was planning to write a fiction novel after her retirement from politics next year.

“I still have lots of ambition to go out and do different things.

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