Jolie's inventory of
tattoos has become the subject of much media attention. Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in many of her productions. She frequently adds or even changes existing tattoos and has said that all the tattoos she possesses have a special meaning.
Jolie's tattoos: 1) The
lower case letter "
h" (for her brother James Haven) on the inside of her
left wrist.
2) "
A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" (fromTennessee Williams, her favourite poet) on her left
forearm.
3) "
XIII" (number 13 in Roman numerals) on her left forearm.
4) Coordinates representing the locations where she adopted Maddox (
N11° 33' 00" E104° 51' 00") and Zahara
(N09° 02' 00" E038° 45' 00") on her left arm which cover up her "Billy Bob" tattoo.
5)
"العزيمة" (Arabic for "
strength of will") on her right forearm.
6) "
Quod me nutrit me destruit" (Latin for "
What nourishes me also destroys me") several inches below her navel
7) A tilted
Latin cross on the lower left of her abdomen.
8) "
Know your rights" just under her neck between her shoulders.
9)
A prayer of Buddhist Sanskrit symbols for her son Maddox on her left shoulder which covers up the Japanese "death" tattoo.
10) A large
Asian tiger on her back.
11) A
dragon under the tiger.
12) Two pointy
black tribals on the lower parts of her back.
Lasered/ Covered: 1) A
dragon on her left arm (she has been lasering it for some time now, but it is still faintly visible).
2) "
Billy Bob", the name of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton, on her left arm
3) An unidentified
Tattoo both Thornton and Jolie shared. It was on her right forearm, now covered by the "strength of will" tattoo.
4) A
Japanese character for courage which matched a tattoo of her first husband Jonny Lee Miller, now covered by the Tennessee Williams quote.
5) A
Japanese character for death, now covered by the prayer for her son.
6) A
dragon she got in Amsterdam while drunk, now covered by the Latin cross.
7) A
window on her lower back. On Inside the Actors Studio, she explained that she covered this tattoo, because, while she used to spend all of her time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time.
Published: August 26, 2006
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