Kat Von D purchased the Benjamin Schenck Mansion in Vevay, Indiana, in 2020, but she said the historic home still needs a lot of work.
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Kat Von D may have relocated to Indiana three years ago, but she hasn't exactly moved into her new mansion yet.
In Tuesday's episode of the "This Past Weekend" podcast hosted by comedian Theo Von, the tattoo artist said her family "ended up moving to Indiana in the middle of nowhere," a small town called Vevay that boasts less than 2,000 residents.
And the home she purchased there — a Second Empire-style building from 1874 dubbed the Benjamin Schenck Mansion — needs a lot of work, she said.
"We're actually still renovating it right now," Von D said. "We don't live in it yet because there's just so much work having to redo a house like that. So we live actually at our church's parsonage."
Von D is a member of the Switzerland Baptist Church in Vevay. She was recently baptized there, and she shared clips from the ceremony on Instagram.
She explained during the podcast that her church pastor doesn't live nearby — he commutes from Louisville, Kentucky, with his wife — and there are essentially no rentable living spaces in the small town.
"When we first moved out here, we were like, 'Man, where are we going to live?'" Von D said. "And then they were just so nice enough to let us stay there."
Von D famously lived in Los Angeles, California, at the start of her career, and had a TV show about her life there as a tattoo artist called "LA Ink."
And by 2016, she'd purchased a gothic, West Coast mansion that was equally notable. Built in 1896 by Isaac Newton Van Nuys, the Victorian home has stood strong for decades.
It was featured in the 2003 film "Cheaper by the Dozen," and was bought by Von D for $6.5 million.
Though she listed the property for sale with a $15 million price tag in January 2022, the home didn't sell until March 2023 for $7.75 million.
While announcing her move in 2020, Von D said she and her family wanted to leave California because they felt the state had "terrible policies, tyrannical government overreach, ridiculous taxing," and "so much more corruption."
Von D said something similar on Von's podcast, noting that she "just wanted to get away from the California mentality in general."
"I was like, 'Indiana seems safe. No one's going there,'" she said with a laugh.
