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Celebs Who Got Really Embarrassing Tattoos Removed

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Some celebrity tattoos age about as well as milk left out in the sun.

Getting inked to mark a relationship, a role, or a rebellious phase feels permanent at the time — and for years, that permanence has burned plenty of A-listers. From a barbed wire bicep tattoo inked for a movie role to a wedding date etched in Roman numerals, these stars all eventually sat through the sting of laser removal or a cover-up needle to erase decisions they’d rather forget.

• Pamela Anderson had her barbed wire bicep tattoo permanently inked for 1996’s Barb Wire because it was easier than reapplying makeup daily, then spent years starting in 2014 lasering it away.
• Kaley Cuoco covered her 2013 wedding date tattoo with a large moth design in November 2015 after splitting from Ryan Sweeting, telling fans, “note to self- do not mark your body with any future wedding dates.”
• Eva Longoria documented her painful laser removal of tattoos honoring ex-husband Tony Parker — including his jersey number “NINE” on her neck — on Snapchat in September 2016.

Tattoos Outlast Romantic Relationships

Nothing sends a celebrity back to the tattoo parlor faster than a divorce. Kaley Cuoco learned that lesson quickly. She’d inked her wedding date to Ryan Sweeting in Roman numerals on the back of her neck, and once the marriage ended, she went to a tattoo shop and had the numerals swallowed up by a large moth design rather than lasering it off entirely.

Eva Longoria took a more painful route. After divorcing Tony Parker, she had multiple tattoos removed, including his jersey number “NINE” inked on her neck and their wedding date on her wrist. In September 2016, she posted the sessions to Snapchat, warning younger fans that getting a tattoo lasered off hurts far worse than getting one applied — a warning echoed almost word for word by other celebrities on this list, similar to the fallout chronicled in stories of famous relationships that went south.

Angelina Jolie went a step further than a simple removal. Her upper-arm tattoo honoring ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton was erased after their split, and instead of leaving blank skin, she had the geographical coordinates of her children’s birthplaces inked in its place.

A Movie Role That Became Permanent

Not every regrettable tattoo came from heartbreak. Pamela Anderson’s famous barbed wire bicep piece started as a practical decision for her 1996 film Barb Wire — rather than have makeup artists paint it on for every shoot day, she simply had it tattooed for real. The design became one of her signature looks through the late ’90s, but by 2014 she’d committed to extensive laser sessions to fade it, leaving the once-iconic ink barely visible.

note to self- do not mark your body with any future wedding dates.

The Ratchet Tattoo And The Booth Cameras

Adrienne Bailon, co-host of The Real, never minced words about her tattoo of ex-boyfriend Rob Kardashian’s name inked on her backside, calling it the “ratchetest booty tattoo.” After several failed attempts to erase it, she finally documented the completed laser removal procedure on Extra in July 2014, closing the book on a tattoo that had followed her through years of tabloid attention.

Boy Band Ink And Teenage Rebellion

Nick Lachey’s tattoo regret dates back to his 98 Degrees days. His late-1990s tribal sun bicep piece originally framed the band’s logo at its center — a permanent tribute to the group whose history includes plenty of the drama detailed in boy band beef retrospectives. Rather than lasering it off, Lachey opted to have the design filled in and covered up entirely.

Kelly Osbourne’s tattoo history reads like a teenage rebellion checklist, including a piano keyboard design on her forearm. She began laser removal sessions in the early 2010s to erase those impulsive pieces, and like Eva Longoria, she’s repeatedly pointed out that the removal process is exponentially more painful than the original tattooing session ever was.

Between Cuoco’s moth cover-up, Longoria’s Snapchat winces, and Anderson’s decade-long fade job, the pattern holds across every era of fame: getting the tattoo takes an afternoon, but getting rid of it can take years.