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Angelina Jolie is a celebrity with a very high profile, famous her acting and also well-known for her artistic tattoo body art pieces. Her numerous amount of artistic tattoo body art pieces have attracted a lot of attention from the media. This has also been one of the major topics during interviews with any magazines or other interviewers. The filmmakers are forced to be creative while using Angelina Jolie as part of their film as they have to cover up her artistic tattoo body art pieces especially when she has to bare her skin. Although she is not against film nudity, this has been one of the headaches to the filmmakers.
Currently, apart from being the most well-known celebrity in Hollywood and the most photographed women in the world, she is also known as the one celebrity with the most tattoo body artistic pieces. Currently, she has 13 tattoo body artistic pieces as known. Some of the tattoo body artistic pieces are quotes such as Tennessee Williams "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages", strength of will in Arabic, "quod me nutrit me destruit" which means what nourishes me destroys me, a Yantra prayer written in ancient Khmer and Pali scripts for Maddox, her first adopted son.
There are also four sets of geographical coordinates on the upper left arm. All these coordinates are indicators of the birthplaces of her children. The top row is the longitudinal and latitudinal location of Cambodia where Maddox, her eldest adopted son was born. Second is the coordinates of Ethiopia which is the place where Zahara was born. The third row belongs to her biological daughter, Shiloh, and she was born in Namibia. The last row represents Pax Thien's place of birth, Vietnam.
When she first appeared on the red carpet in Cannes to promote her movie A Mighty Heart, cameramen have taken photographs of her covering her upper left arm using Brad Pitt's arm. However the media managed to grab hold of the photos which showed bruises due to the side effect from new tattooing of the four coordinates.
Apart from these, she has either covered or removed using lasers of the tattoos such as Billy Bob, a window on the lower back and a Chinese character for death. The window used to represent freedom for she explained that she used to look out from her window wishing to be outside. Now, she does not need that window anymore since she is outside.
Angelina Jolie's tattoo body artistic pieces include a discreet M on the palm of the hand to honor her mother who has passed away recently. Her new tattoo body artistic pieces of the coordinates of her children birthplaces are placed on the previous places where she had her ex-husband's name which has been removed by laser.
Other tattoos that she has include a large black cross on the left hip, the letter H on the left wrist which represents her brother James Haven, a large Asian tiger, a dragon and the Roman numeral 13
In her movies, her tattoos are not visible due to the fact that they have been covered up by make-ups. It was even rumored that digital enhancers were used to erase some of the visible tattoos even after application of make-ups.
