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Harry Styles is used to catching the eye of older women – but 47-year-old Jayne Bailey might be more than even the One Direction heart-throb can handle.

Despite being almost four times the average age of a typical screaming 1D fan, Jayne is crazy about the band – and has 20 tattoos to prove it. She has spent £350 and 10 hours under the needle for inkings dedicated to the boys.

She shares her obsession with 13-year-old daughter Aisling and the pair have plastered their home with One Direction posters.

Jayne has even joined Aisling camping outside venues to get tickets for concerts. “I love the band. I think they’re great, it’s something me and my daughter can do together,” she said.

“People stare but I just get used to it. I’ve had abuse on Twitter – even from 13-year-old girls. They say things like, ‘They will think you’re stupid, they’ll hate you.’ But I’m mature enough to know whether or not I want a tattoo.

“Some people look at me strangely but the people that know me know that it’s who I am. I’ll be devastated if 1D break up, but I’m old enough to know what I’m g­etting myself into.”

Jayne has followed the boys since they first appeared on the X Factor in 2010.

She was rooting for Liam Payne, whose parents drink in her local boozer, but quickly became hooked on Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry and Louis Tomlinson too.

“When Liam came into the pub for a drink over Christmas it made our year,” Jayne beamed.

“He signed a hoodie for my daughter and a £10 note for me, which I’ve had framed.”

The single mum got her first 1D tattoo last April and her collection includes two swallows on her chest – just like Harry.

The former pub manager also has the band’s logo on her wrist, each member’s date of birth and signature and the Little Things song title etched on her body.

She has Louis’s stag tattoo on her upper arm, as well as copying his paper plane, bluebird, teacup, stick man on a skateboard and heart with headphones.

Jayne said: “I do want more but I’m a single mum, so often it’s a choice between getting a tattoo and shopping – and we need to eat.

Aisling said: “I think some of my mum’s tattoos are really awful but some of them are kinda cool. I like the signature tattoos but hate the big stag one.

“But I’m an equally big 1D fan as my mum. We are super-fans.”