Michelle Knight continues to ink her chest and arms with elaborate tattoos. They wrap around her arms like sleeves and they tell the story of her life.
"This one is the love of music," she told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview last year, pointing to musical notes near her wrist. "I'm planning for it to go up [my arm] and it's going to have a lily. It's telling the story of my love of music and me changing my name."
Knight, now 34, changed her name to Lillian Rose Lee. Lilies are her favorite flower, she says.
Two years ago, Knight escaped from her captor, who kidnapped her near his Cleveland home and held them against their will for more than a decade. Castro chained them to walls, and raped and tortured them while he kept them hidden.
Castro was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison in 2013.
Earlier this week, Knight told about a tattoo, which includes five flowers on her left arm. "Every rose is for every abortion that I had in the house," she says.
In Knight's best-selling book, Finding Me, she writes about her multiple pregnancies and how Castro starved and punched her in the stomach until she miscarried.
For now, Knight lives on her own near Cleveland. She continues sharing her story through the tattoo art inked on her body, even if the memories are painful.
She shows off her colorful "protection dragon" that covers her entire wrist. It cost $600 and it took six hours to do. There are visible scars from the chains that once kept her captive.
"When I did this one, it was hard to get [the colored ink] on there, so I told them not to be afraid to add pressure because I'm numb to pain," she told PEOPLE. "And when it got to here, that was the only part that hurt because that's where the scars are."
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