Celebrity Lover's Covered in Ink

Scribbling the name of the guy or girl you love on the stall wall of the public bathroom, or spray painting across the side of a brick building is a vandalizing declaration of love.

And, of course anytime a celebrity love affair is exploited by the media with shocking evidence in fresh ink of that the couple tattooed each other’s names on their skin the it breeds the smell of celebrity scandal. Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, a prime pop-culture couple tainted with name tattoos publicizing their love affair.

They met New Years Eve of 1994. They were married by February of 1995. Pamela Anderson had Tommy’s name tattooed on her wedding band finger, Tommy Lee had Pamela’s name tattooed on his penis.

By February of 1998 the two were divorced, yet they still had the tattoos. Pamela had a cover tattoo done, replacing the T in Tommy with an M, making it mommy. It is unclear whether or not Tommy still has his tattoo, but one thing that is clear is tattoo removal on a penis is arousing but not amusing.

Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thorton are another classic example. Married in June of 2000, the two were all over each other in public. Nearly sick with love for one another, Angelina got Billy Bob’s name tattooed on her upper left arm and Billy Bob got Angelina’s name in the crook of his left arm. Two blissful years later the two separated. Angelina filed for divorce claiming irreconcilable differences and the divorce finally went through May of 2003. Angelina Jolie underwent laser tattoo removal to clear Billy Bob’s name from her skin, however settled for fading the area then getting a second tattoo as a cover-up design tattoo of longitude and latitude numbers representing her children’s birth locations.

Billy Bob in similar fashion covered his “Angelina” tattoo with a rework design of an angel. Oddly enough, Angelina was not the first woman’s name Billy Bob had to cover either. He’s had three other women’s names tattooed on him, all of which have been covered by thorns, a lotus flower, and a middle-eastern cross.

Then there was the once head over heals in love couple Johnny Deep and Winona Ryder. The two love birds met at a movie premier in 1990, soon after which they were exclusively dating. Johnny Depp then claimed he had never loved a woman before the way he loved Winona, so he paid $75 for a tattoo on his upper right arm that said Winona Forever.

The two's love story, yet another Hollywood heartbreak ending with forever spanning an entire three-year lifetime. Once the trivial relationship dust settled Johnny Depp had laser tattoo removal treatments fading out the “WI” in Winona leaving him a Wino Forever.

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