Angelina Jolie Tattoos
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Surely the most popular tattooed female celebrity in the world today has to be Angelina Jolie. This gifted actress, who is blessed with stunning good looks, has at least a dozen tattoos, and shows no signs of slowing down her collecting. Her tattoos are a reflection of her personality, exotic and with more than just a hint of dangerous sensuality.
This is a babe with an edge and a true ink aficionado. A woman who professes she likes to play with knives in bed and has the name of the man she loves tattooed on her.
And when he exits stage left, she doesn’t hesitate to have it lasered off just as quickly. Angelina has made the tribal dragon one of the most popular tattoos for women.
Gothic letter tattoo between her shoulder blades says “Know Your Rights” tattooed just below the base of her neck.
Tattoo on her left shoulder blade was, just like the tiger tattoo, done by tattoo artist Noo (aka Sompong) Kanhphaiin in a hotel in Pathum Thani, 16 miles north of Bangkok.
It is a Buddhist Pali incantation written in Khmer script, the language of Cambodia. It is there to protect her and her adopted Cambodian son Maddox from bad luck.
The translation for the script is : ” May your enemies run far away from you. If you acquire riches, may they remain yours always.
Your beauty will be that of Apsara. Wherever you may go, many will attend, serve and protect you, surrounding you on all sides.”
Arabic script tattoo on Angelina Jolie’s right arm means “Determination”. It covers up the abstract lines tattoo she had done together with her ex Billy Bob Thornton.
It means “Strength of Will”, (Al-Aziemah) on her right forearm. Jolie’s numerous tattoos have been the subject of much media attention and have often been addressed by interviewers. Jolie stated that, while she is not opposed to film nudity, the large number of tattoos on her body have forced filmmakers to become more creative when planning nude or love scenes.
Tattoo on her left underarm is the Roman number 13. She had it done because she doesn’t believe in superstitions.
Later she had V MCMXL added to the tattoo. 13 May 1940 is the date when Winston Churchill gave a famous speech, in which he said: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”.
tattoo on Jolie’s left arm are the words of Tennessee Williams:
“A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.”, Angelina Jolie had this tattoo done in the presence of her mother.
Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in productions such as the Tomb Raider movies, Alexander, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Cross Tattoo covers the little dragon with the blue tongue she had done in Amsterdam. Next to it is a phrase in Latin:
“Quod me nutrit me destruit”, meaning “What nourishes me, destroys me.”
Angelina Jolie had the cross tattoo done the day before she married Johnny Lee Miller in 1995. In her own words: “It was all symbolic, and it was a good thing, nothing dark.”
This rune style tattoo on Angelina’s wrist is the letter h. Depending on the source it is to remind her of her brother, James Haven.
Jolie’s inventory of tattoos has become the subject of much media attention, and she infrequently adds or even changes existing tattoos. She has said that all the tattoos she possesses have a special meaning.
These numbers are the geographical coordinates (longitudes and latitudes) from the locations where her children first entered her life.
N11° 33′ 00″ E104° 51′ 00″ : the place in Cambodia where Angelina Jolie’s eldest son Maddox was born.
N09° 02′ 00″ E038° 45′ 00″ : the place in Ethiopia were her daughter Zahara was born.
S22° 40′ 26″ E014° 31′ 40″ : the place in Namibia (Swakopmund) where Angelina gave birth to her biological daughter with Brad Pitt, Shiloh (Hebrew for “the peaceful one”), was born.
N10° 46′ 00″ E106° 41′ 40″ : the place in Vietnam where Angelina’s son Pax Thien was born.
The coordinates tattoo covers the place where the dragon tattoo and name of her ex husband Billy Bob used to be before they got lasered off. You can still see the dragon a bit.
12-inch long, 8-inch wide Bengal tiger tattoo on her lower back is Angelina Jolie’s latest. It was done in Bangkok on July 8, 2004, during a 2 hour session by tattoo artist Sompong Kanhphai who also blessed it by chanting an ancient hymn. Sompong also did her Khmer tattoo.
She had the tiger tattoo done to celebrate her Cambodian citizenship. The tiger tattoo was done in the traditional Thai tattoo style with a manual needle. The tiger’s tail covers her blue window tattoo.
Removed and Covered Up Tattoos:
Angelina Jolie’s Asian dragon tattoo with the name of her second husband Billy Bob Thornton above it (added later). She had it removed after they broke up.
In an interview during the time of the tattoo removal procedure she said: “I’ll never be stupid enough to have a man’s name tattooed on me again.”, It took 5 visits to the tattoo removal clinic to erase the dragon and you can still see it a bit.
Jolie has 3 tattoos on her lower back: a tribal, a blue window and a tribal dragon. The tribal dragon is now partly covered by the tiger tattoo.
The window is symbol for the fact that she always found herself looking through the window, wishing she was somewhere else. The window is covered up by the tail of the Bengal tiger. She had it covered because she is where she wants to be right now.
Dragon tattoo with blue tongue on Angelina’s hip is covered up by the cross tattoo, abstract lines tattoo design on Angelina Jolie’s right arm is a custom tattoo created by herself and Billy Bob Thornton. It is now covered up with the Arabic tattoo.
tattoo on Jolie’s left shoulder blade is the Japanese symbol for Death and it reminds her to live. She had it removed and now has the Khmer tattoo for her son Maddox on that place. This Japanese tattoo was her first tattoo ever.
Tattoo on her right arm is the Japanese symbol for Courage. Her ex husband Johnny Lee Miller had a matching tattoo, that’s why she had it removed, it didn’t feel like her own.
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