Angelina Jolie in the eyes of the screen audience is a beautiful actress with a salty and attractive beauty. Besides, she is also a world-famous humanitarian philanthropist. However, the beauty also owns more than 20 large and small tattoos with different meanings.
Each time Angelina adds a new tattoo, it attracts the press and the public. In particular, when people clearly see them, each image she chooses has a different spiritual meaning.
Since she was a teenager, Angelina has decided to tattoo different symbols. Up to now, they have almost completely covered the actress’s body. Angelina’s first tattoo is the word “death” – Japanese kanji. The beauty shares this tattoo meant to remind her of life.
As a Cambodian citizen, she always remembers and respects this country. In addition, in 2016 she also adopted her son Maddox from Cambodia. Therefore, the Khmer characters she chose to replace the previous word “death”. This text tattoo is used to pray for good luck for Angelina Jolie’s adopted son Maddox.
At the waist, Angelina Jolie tattooed 2 small tribal symbols around a dragon. Then, a very large Bengal tiger, more than 30cm long and 20cm wide, was added on top. This tattoo dates back to 2004 thanks to the hand of artist Sompong Kanphai. The Bengal tiger is the way the actress chose to celebrate her Cambodian citizenship.
Angelina Jolie once got a weird blue tongue dragon tattoo on her hip after a trip to Amsterdam in 1996. But soon, she seemed to regret it and decided to cover this dragon with an X tattoo. Accompanying it is the Latin inscription next to “What nourishes me destroys me”.
On the back of her neck, the actress chose a tattoo with the words “know your rights”. This sentence roughly translates as “understand your rights” to express Jolie’s concept of living with respect for human rights.
In addition, on the left arm of the female artist tattooed the Roman numeral “XII V MCMXL”, translated as May 13, 1940. This tattoo was tattooed in 2009. On her right hand, she has an Arabic script that means “determination” but according to her it refers to “willpower”.
Previously, Angelina also tattooed ex-husband Billy Bob’s name on his left arm to honor him. After the breakup, it was removed and covered with another tattoo. The female artist tattooed on it 6 coordinates of the birthplace of her adopted and biological children. Later, she added the 7th coordinate that is supposed to be the birthplace of Brad Pitt – Angelina Jolie’s ex-husband.
What caught people’s attention was that Angelina chose to tattoo her back with 3 new tattoos. It includes a table of characters simulating geometry, animal shapes and pagodas. According to locals, it is an ancient Thai Buddhist symbol, also a mantra to help protect oneself.
Besides, people also realized that these 3 tattoos are related to the tattoo on Brad Pitt’s back. Pitt tattooed a Buddhist symbol on his left flank. This couple tattoo is meant to symbolize the marriage bond. However, in the end they still broke up.
In addition, on the inside of Angelina Jolie’s thigh is the sign “Whiskey Bravo”, the initials of Brad Pitt. Previously, both had pilot licenses. Whiskey Bravo is the abbreviation of Brad Pitt’s initials according to the aviation alphabet.
On the inside of her left arm, Angelina chose to tattoo the words of Tennessee Williams “a prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages”c
Not only expressing her ideal of life, the female artist also uses tattoos to show respect for family members. The “H” on the inside of her wrist shows her love for her brother James Haven. Jolie has a tattoo of the letter “M” on her palm, in homage to her mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
Each tattoo on Angelina Jolie has a different special meaning. However, she also once regretted the tattoo related to old relationships and tried to cover it up.