For all you can say about how Jennifer Lopez jumps from one serious relationship to the next, her estranged husband isn’t taking his time in his currently relationship. Right after we saw a flurry of photos of J.Lo out with her new boyfriend, 24 year-old backup dancer Casper Smart, Marc was posting messages on Twitter and Facebook to make sure we knew about his new 24 year-old girlfriend, a Brazilian model named Shannon De Lima. Well now there’s news that Marc got someink for De Lima to seal the deal. He calls her his Statue of Liberty, so he had a Statue of Liberty inked inside his right wrist, which is where he previously had a tattoo for J.Lo. So smart.

Some say it in love letters, others in poetry.

Marc Anthony, however, opts to say it in ink of a different kind – etched permanently onto his skin.

The singer, 43, currently sports a new tattoo he got in honor of his new flame, Venezuelan model Shannon De Lima, on New Year’s Eve in Miami, according to TMZ.

The tattoo, of the Statue of Liberty inked onto the inside of his right wrist, is a direct reference to the 24-year-old beauty, whom he calls his “Statue of Liberty” – a nickname he gave her for “freeing” him of his past relationships, sources told the site.

Anthony very publicly split with wife Jennifer Lopez this past summer after seven years of marriage. The couple have two children together, twins Max and Emme.

The singer’s children from previous relationships, however, thus far approve of dad’s new relationship.

“To all my followers and everybody on twitter follow 2012 best couple and for many more years to come @MarcAnthony and @Shadelima !!!!” his son Chase Muniz wrote earlier this month.

Anthony and his 17-year-old daughter Ariana even decided to get unspecified matching tattoos on New Year’s Eve, replacing the “Jennifer” tattoo that used to cover his right wrist.

Lopez and Anthony will continue to work together on talent competition “Q’Viva! The Chosen” despite their split, and the couple opened up about their new relationship dynamic in a recent screening of the premiere episode, with Lopez calling it “very Sonny and Cher after divorce.”

Added Anthony: “Marriage is one chapter, kids are another.”

[From The NY Daily News]

I can’t really tell from the way this story is worded on TMZ or The Daily News if Marc covered up his J.Lo tattoo with the Statue of Liberty tattoo. It sounds like he got another tattoo to cover up the J.Lo one and then added this Statue of Liberty tat in that same area. When is it ever a good idea to get a tattoo for a lover? I understand getting tattoos for your kids, parents or blood relations, but even for a spouse it seems misguided. Marc has been with this model a few weeks tops unless he was cheating with her and she was his jumpoff. Even if that’s the case, it’s supremely dumb to get a tattoo for her. At least he’s getting a symbol instead of her name, but he’s going to have to look at that thing every day for the rest of his life barring another tattoo covering it up or laser surgery. I could see maybe getting a tattoo for a girlfriend or boyfriend in a discreet spot that you don’t have to see all the time, but when it’s on your wrist it’s going to remind you of them constantly even after the breakup.

Marc and J.Lo really were perfect for each other. They’re both so stupid when they’re in love. Or maybe Marc still loves J.Lo and is trying to make her jealous. Given their dynamic recently that could be the case.

Marc Anthony is shown on 9-9-11 performing at The Meadowlands. Credit: Janet Mayer / PR Photos

For the life of me, I will never understand the compulsive famewhore. I understand the selective famewhore – the celebrity, however A-list or however D-list, who tries to suck all of the attention they can get at certain times, usually for some kind of added benefit besides the sheer fact of “getting attention.” But I don’t understand the compulsive ones, like Lindsay Lohan or Kim Kardashian or LeAnn Rimes. Those three women will actively try to steal the spotlight with their budget-ness and busted-ness, even when it’s perfectly obvious that they aren’t wanted. Here’s an example: all of the big A-listers were in LA this weekend for the Golden Globes and all of the pre- and post-Globes parties. There’s no reason for Kim Kardashian to show up anywhere – she’s not needed. Same with Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. And yet they arrived, acting like they were just as relevant as legit film and television stars.

So, with that in mind, what did LeAnn Rimes do while no one was paying attention to her during the Globes-centric weekend? She got a new tattoo and she tweeted about it endlessly. Sigh…

He is the love of her life who barely leaves her side. But if ever LeAnn Rimes is ever apart from her husband Eddie Cibrian, she will only have to look to her foot to be reminded of him. The 29-year-old singer got the words ‘The only one that matters’ daintily tattooed on her foot yesterday.

The Country Music star explained that the phrase came out of a conversation she had had with her husband of just under one year. LeAnn visited celebrity favoured tattoo parlour Shamrock Social Club for the permanent etching. The inking was done by the shop’s owner Mark Mahoney, who counts David Beckham and Lindsay Lohan as his clients.

Of course the Country Music star posted a picture of the finished product on her Twitter account for all of her fans to see. She wrote: ‘Ok….here it is! It’s dainty. All of my tattoos are very feminine.’

Following the post, she received a barrage of questions from fans asking her what it meant, and LeAnn was quick to answer them. At the time of the tattoo, she took a picture of Mahoney getting to work on her foot.

‘Mark Mahoney ROCKS!’ she tweeted, posting a picture of the legendary Hollywood tattoo artist. LeAnn, who already has two other tattoos, explained to her followers that this time around she had no pain.

‘@tobrienz it’s visible in flip flops and yes very meaningful. It’s something Eddie said to me,’ she told one fan.

‘@cmo77 it came out of a conversation Eddie and I were having but yes, it could mean so much,’ she explained further to another.

LeAnn had the etching done on Sunday before going home to watch the Golden Globes.
The singer, who already has two other tattoos, explained to her followers that this time around she had no pain.

‘@Christina4jc I was surprised that it was not painful at all,’ she wrote to one fan.

[From The Mail]

So “the only one that matters” came out of a conversation with Eddie… meaning it was something she said to him or something he said to her. It’s probably an allusion to how LeAnn is “bullied” and how Eddie’s opinion is the “only one that matters.” Blah. Whatever. Here you go, LeAnn. We’re giving you some attention. There, there.

And you know what? I don’t even think the tattoo is “dainty”. That scroll is much too large.

Photos courtesy of Fame, LeAnn‘s Twitter.

Did you hear the story of that reformed neo-Nazi who had multiple very painful laser treatments to remove the skinhead tattoos all over his face? That’s what I thought of when I saw the photo of this woman with “Drake” tattooed across her head in this super ugly block font. It’s something that will stay with her forever barring extreme measures, but at least she has the option of growing bangs or wearing hats. Unlike the neo-Nazi guy, it’s not an offensive tattoo – it merely signifies that she’s a fool. Canadian singer/autotune abuser Drake knows all about this tattoo, and he blames the tattoo artist for helping this woman realize her dream of having his name permanently emblazoned on her forehead. Drake said the guy is a “f’ing a**hole” and “should never do tattoos again.” He also said he would like “to talk to this girl and understand it all.” That’s probably exactly why she did it. Here’s more:

She tatted his name on her forehead, and, as promised, Drake has confirmed that he knows she is for real. He’s not 100% pleased, though.

The rapper on Friday spoke out about the California woman who got his name tattooed in huge block letters across her forehead, calling her “incredible,” but the artist who did it “a f*cking asshole.”

“I want to meet her and understand what happened,” he told LA radio host Mando Fresko. “That’s cool though, I feel you 100%, that to me is absolutely incredible.”

As for the artist, Kevin Campbell, Drake put out a warning.

“The guy who tatted is a f*cking as*hole though, I will tell you that,” he said. “I don’t f*ck with that guy. F*ck you to that tat artist by the way. And you should lose your job and should never do tattoos again and I don’t f*ck with you. And if I ever see you, I’m a f*ck you up.”

For his part, the artist told Vice Magazine that he wasn’t exactly keen on doing the ink in the first place.

“She was really psyched about it. She had the sh*tty font all picked out on her iPhone ready to go and was pretty adamant about putting it on her forehead,” he said. “She acted as if she had planned it out for a while, but I’m not really sure how much extended coherent thought could actually go into getting such a stupid tattoo on your forehead.”

However, that mea culpa will probably get drowned out by this: “The funny thing is, I didn’t know who Drake was,” Campbell admitted. “I figured it was her hood or some shit, not some goofnugget R&B dude.”

[From Huffington Post via ONTD]

So is it the tattoo artist’s fault for helping this woman get a tattoo he knew was terrible and that he admitted was stupid? It bothers me that the tattoo artist would so thoroughly diss the tattoo, but that he took the money and went through with it anyway. They should have some sort of policy against facial tattoos. Unless they don’t care and just want the cash. That’s obviously the case here.

Drake is no stranger to tattoos. He has a giant tattoo of deceased singer Aaliyah’s face on his back.

This video has multiple F bombs and is not safe for work, depending on where you work.

Header Photo via Imgur. Other photos are from May, 2011 and credit: Fame

When Megan Fox started getting a lot of publicity and attention – circa 2008-09 – everyone began noticing her totally busted and cheap-looking Marilyn Monroe tattoo. Megan got Marilyn’s disembodied head tattooed on her right forearm years ago, when she was 18 years old (she’s currently 25). My problem was two-fold: one, I’m sick of young starlets idolizing Marilyn Monroe and getting tattoos to mark their obsession with this damaged and fascinating woman. Two, Megan’s tattoo was just ugly and tacky. Anyway, in the past year, Megan’s Marilyn tattoo has been looking increasingly “faded”. Now Megan has confirmed that she’s getting it taken off:

Who says tattoos are forever? Megan Fox is having her iconic Marilyn Monroe tattoo removed from her inner right arm — and said it’s because she’s growing up.

“I’m just over it,” Fox told reporters after her performance in Montblanc’s 24-Hour Plays in New York on Monday. “You outgrow things that you love when you were a child. I got it when I was 18 and now I’m 25 and it just doesn’t make sense anymore.”

But the removal of something that was once so important to her isn’t painless. “It’s a hundred times worse than the tattoo itself,” she admitted. “I’ve only done one [session] so I probably have three or four left.”

Although Fox has other tattoos, including a Shakespeare reference on her shoulder and husband Brian Austin Green’s name on her hip, she won’t put anything over Monroe’s fading face once treatments are completed.

In fact, she believes it’ll be impossible to tell she ever had a tattoo at all.

“I think it will come off completely because I have the right skin type to remove ink,” she said. “The more fair skinned you are the easier it is to remove dark ink, and I’m as fair as it gets.”

[From People]

Remember how long it took for Angelina Jolie to get that “Billy Bob Thornton” tatt taken off of her arm? You could still see his name faintly, even years after they were over, and I think Angelina even wore makeup to cover it sometimes. I believe that’s the same arm where she now has her kids’ latitude and longitude numbers, right? Anyway, Megan just made me think about it. I don’t have a problem with people taking off their tattoos, especially when the tattoos are hideous. And I’m so happy that Megan has “outgrown” her Marilyn thing. Maybe she can have a word with Lindsay Lohan.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

WHOA. Rumer Willis has tattoos all over her arms. When did that happen? Just last week, I discussed some photos of Rumer on a red carpet where she looked really, really pretty – go here to review. As you can see, it looks like she has one large tattoo on her right forearm, but other than that, nothing. So… CB and I have been looking through these new, candid photos of Rumer out and about in LA, flashing these “tattoos” – we were debating whether or not they were real. CB thinks they’re definitely all fake, and she says that they’re just transfers that have been treated with something to make them less shiny, and look more authentic, like this:

I think a few of the tats are real, though, especially the large on her right forearm. Maybe another one or two are real as well. But how great is it that transfers have come such a long way that they look so natural these days? Seriously, Rumer is looking very Kat Von D in these pics, and I think I mean that in a good way? Debatable. Someone gave me a henna tattoo kit as a gift, and now I’m feeling the urge to go play with it. I’m too old to play with it, right? Right.

Anyway, The Mail thinks Rumer is just doing this for attention, like a kid who acts out when her parents are fighting. Because Rumer is upset over Ashton and her mom, I guess. I don’t know… part of me thinks that Rumer probably already had an idea about what her step-father was really like. Maybe she’s not surprised at all.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

LeAnn Rimes got a temporary tattoo at Lollapalooza featuring a verse from her wedding vows to Eddie Cibrian. (Photos are here.) A paparazzo just happened to be there at the moment the tattoo was completed to get a very clear close-up photos of LeAnn showing it off. Then People Magazine, and various outlets ran stories on the tattoo, with Radar claiming that LeAnn was considering having the ink made permanent. Only LeAnn then had the gall to claim that her tattoo-lite wasn’t “news” and that a random photographer just happened to have caught photos of the entire session. She’s ridiculous. Here’s the story from People:

Just months after she married Eddie Cibrian in April, LeAnn Rimes revisits her wedding day with some new body art.

The country crooner displayed a temporary tattoo inspired by the promises her husband made to her on their big day while attending the Lollapalooza music festival this past weekend in Chicago – where Cibrian is also filming The Playboy Club.

“You gave me the courage to be truthful,” the ink, etched on her ribcage, reads. “I promise to give you the comfort to be trustful.”

Rimes says she’s “just trying something, playing” for now – although it may be more permanent than she originally intended.

“Too funny!” she Tweeted. “I can’t get it off. In search of rubbing alcohol I think!”

[From People]

What’s the hold up on a real tattoo? Is she waiting for Brandi to get one first so she can copy it?

Isn’t that vow and tattoo ironic considering how LeAnn got together with Eddie? He convinced her to be truthful, because she was sneaking around with him behind both their then-spouses backs, and now it’s hard for her to trust the guy, because just like her he’s a conniving cheat.

LeAnn subsequently tweeted, “Too funny! I got a stencil not a tattoo! Its not “news”… however, I can’t get it off. In search if rubbing alcohol I think!” Then she tweeted, with no sense of irony “I asked them not to take pics, but I guess someone snapped some while hiding….sucks nothing is private.” It “sucks nothing is private,” says the woman who tweets her every move and is telling us all about the very tattoo she was hoping to keep “private.” If LeAnn Rimes loses 40 pounds in the forest and no one is there to witness it, will she just fade away, or will she get a boob job or a tattoo, desperately pleading for our validation while claiming not to care?

LeAnn Rimes is shown on 7/7/11 (short shorts, credit: Pacific Coast News) and on 7/11/11. (Dress, credit: WENN.com

Oooh, I haven’t looked at Miley Cyrus’s Twitter feed in way too long. Did you know that she has two new puppies? Did you know that those puppies are adorable and she’s tweeting photos of them constantly? So, so cute. One of them is named Floyd. I don’t know which one.

Anyway, I was looking on Miley’s Twitter because of “ZOMG” story that is really quite boring. For a while now, Miley has been bringing out her liberal, gay-loving social conscience. She given interviews where she’s talked – rather eloquently – about her embrace of her gay friends and fans, and she’s even come out in support of full gay-marriage rights (note to Democratic legislators: when Miley Cyrus has beaten you to the punch, you need to go further). Miley has even gotten into some Twitter tiffs with commenters, supporters and instigators regarding gay marriage, and she’s always held her ground rather admirably. And now this… Miley got a tattoo of an equal sign (“=”) on her finger, and she posted a twit-pic of the tattoo with the message “All LOVE is equal”:

So far, no one has talked to Miley’s spokesperson or anything, but I think Miley’s Twitter feed speaks for itself. The girl believes that gays should have the right to marry. She doesn’t think the love that gay men and women have for each other is any different than the love straight people have for each other. And I have to say: Good for her. Oh, and this was her seventh tattoo. Yikes! All the little girls want to be Angelina these days.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Miley‘s Twitter feed.

I don’t watch L.A. Ink but I remember seeing a clip where Kat got a tattoo of a coworker’s face on her thigh. (That was in an episode from 2008) Kat has her mother’s face on her back shoulder, her sister’s face on an arm, and her ex husband’s face on a leg. She has so many tattoos now that it’s hard to see where she’d have space for more. As part of the plot for the upcoming season of L.A. Ink, Kat got another face, her then-lover Jesse James’ fifth grade school photo, underneath her armpit. The scenario was basically the same as when she had her friend Pixie’s face tattooed on her – she did it as a surprise and then caught Jesse’s reaction for the show. He seemed ok with it, called her crazy and told her he loved her. (That clip is above.) Kat and Jesse are of course kaput now, making this season opener for L.A. Ink all the more mock-worthy.

Kat Von D and Jesse James may have broken off their engagement, but she has one thing from the relationship that is going to be really hard to get rid of – a tattoo of his face!

In the sneak peek of the season premiere of LA INk obtained by RadarOnline.com, Kat surprises Jesse with a tattoo on her left side that is his face from a childhood school photo.

“I’m getting his face tattooed on me and I have no idea how he’s going to react,” Kat says in the clip.

When Jesse arrives at her tattoo shop he jokes “I feel like I’m in court,” as Kat tells him she’s nervous about giving him his “surprise.”

He seems happy with her new ink – saying “you’re crazy,” but ultimately telling Kat “yeah” he loves it, and “I love you.”

Perhaps foreshadowing the future, Kat says she was scared about Jesse’s reaction. “I thought you were going to tell me you were breaking up with me.”

[From Radar Online]

All I can do is point and laugh. In Kat’s case she has so much ink all over her body that it’s probably easy enough to ignore a few faces of her exes, though. It’s not like someone with a handful of tattoos getting stuck with a big photo of their ex on their body – she has hundreds.

Radar has a follow-up article about how a supposed eyewitness heard Kat and Jesse fighting outside her house. She was overheard accusing him of cheating on her. This is of course a very predictable outcome given Jesse’s well documented history. I hope that Kat is the one who leaked this story to Radar so that she could get her side of the story out. Again, pointing and laughing.

The weirdest thing happened with Jennifer Aniston. She’s a HOMEWRECKER!!! No, that’s not the weird thing, honestly. She got a tattoo on her foot. Because her boyfriend of just a few weeks – the one that she took to her taping of Inside the Actor’s Studio – has lots of tattoos, and Aniston can play with the big, hardcore boys, right? Why is Aniston so full of conspiracies lately? Anyway, we don’t have the photos where you can make out the blurry cursive on right foot, but you can see them here, at Dlisted. According to People Magazine, who got the word from Aniston’s rep, the tattoo says “Norman” – after her recently deceased dog, the one whose death announcement came, oddly enough, weeks after he died, and on the same day Brad Pitt’s film premiered at Cannes. When Aniston did her taping of Inside the Actor’s Studio, she also said that “Norman” was her favorite word. So… did she really get her dead dog’s name tattooed on her?

Here’s the thing: the recent photos out there of Aniston’s feet are kind of blurry, as I said. I gave them a cursory 10-second examination, and it honestly doesn’t look like it says “Norman” despite what Aniston’s rep said. Life & Style recently noted that one of Justin’s tattoos says “Odi et Amo” (Latin for “I hate and I love”) – I swear, it looks like Aniston’s tattoo has a big “O” at the beginning. Maybe she just got “Oprah” tattooed on it. It would make more sense to me.

But, whatever. I’m sure I’m wrong. If her rep confirmed it to People, I guess she really did get her dog’s name tattooed on her. Norman really did see Aniston through a lot of stuff, and he was her longest relationship ever. I wonder if Justin went with her to the tattoo parlor? I wonder if Justin thinks getting your dog’s name for a tattoo is HARDCORE?!

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Miley Cyrus and her mom Tish were spotted in bikinis on the beach in Rio on Thursday. Miley looks great and like she’s lost a small amount of weight. (Which she didn’t need to lose, but people had noticed that she’d gained some.) Instead of seeing Miley in these pictures, I’m kind of mesmerized by the giant black angel wings that her mom has tattooed over both of her shoulder blades. Is this like a “guardian angel” type of thing? I know a lot of people believe in that.

I don’t want to get into a debate about tattoos in general. I have a couple and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with tattoos, but those things are kind of ugly, in my opinion. It could be worse. Tish could have a giant tattoo of an Ed Hardy dragon on her back, like Jon Gosselin.

Miley has five tattoos (that we know of) at the ripe age of 18. She has “love” tattooed in her ear, she has the word “breathe” written on the side of her ribcage and she has a big dreamcatcher on the other side of her ribs beneath the armpit. She also has a cross on one of her fingers and a heart on her right pinky. I got my tattoos when I was around 21 and I only regret one of them. You have to realize that those things stay with you for life unless you get lasered, which is painful and expensive. So when did Tish get her angel wings and does she still like them? At least she doesn’t have to see them.

photo credit: PacificCoastNews.com