Alexis Bellino is remembering her overdue mom … by means of getting a passage from her mother’s magazine tattooed close her boobs.

The ‘Actual Housewives of Orange County’ alum tells TMZ … her unutilized ink reads “dying is a different way to live” … it’s one thing her mother as soon as wrote in a diary.

Alexis tells us her mother, Penelope, died from an extraordinary mind disorder in August … and 5 days sooner than she died, the community discovered Penelope’s private magazine and went via it.

One passage caught out to Alexis … her mother’s ideas about loss of life.

The magazine excerpt reads … “Why is death feared? Is it any different than going to bed at night and then waking up in the morning? Close your eyes one minute and open them the next to a different reality. We so trust waking up. We trust waking to the same reality. But everything changes … could dying be a different way to live? Dying is a different way to live.”

Alexis says when she learn the “dying is a different way to live” idea, it felt like her mother was once talking to her immediately … and he or she sought after it someplace on her frame.

Smartly, Alexis adopted via … she was at a tattoo parlor Wednesday and were given the word inked over her ribcage, slightly below her boob.

Alexis says a chum advisable tattoo artist Dillon Giarraffa, and he or she’s extremely joyful with the result … telling us he nailed her mother’s handwriting. She says the entire procedure took about 2 1/2 hours and he or she may really feel her mother’s power era she was once getting inked.