Tatt’s Interesting: The Meanings Behind Angelina Jolie’s New Inkings Revealed
Ink-obsessed Angelina Jolie’s three new tattoos are designs she believes will give her protection and health, it has been claimed.
The 40-year-old Oscar winner, who has had serious medical issues for the past three years showed off her latest skin art over the weekend in Colombia as she directed her new war drama First They Killed My Father.
Her new markings had not been spotted on her back before and they joined previous tattoos around her spine and neck, one of which says, ‘Know Your Rights’.
A source told Australia’s Woman’s Day magazine they had deciphered the new symbols and said: “The tattoos are grids with pyramids that give protection and health.”
They added one of the tats was a Yant known as Paech chaluaek – a symbol of a good deed.
The source added it was in line with Angelina’s efforts at the UN to help refugees and women.
Angelina, who has been getting tattooed since her teens, is believed to have had her latest etchings done by Bangkok-based artist Ajarn Noo Kanpai. He also worked with Jolie in 2003 on her shoulder blade and in 2004 on her tiger.
Angelina bares some of her older inkings
The artist who did her new tatts uses an old method of inking by hand, not a machine.
Chants are said to be performed after the tattoo is done so to help further the good deeds.
Angelina’s husband Brad Pitt, 52, is said to have got a new tattoo at the same time from Kanpai.
His was a line from a Bob Dylan song that read: “We live, we die but I know I’ll be with you.”
Apparently tattooist Ajarn Kanpai used the same ink for the couple to bond them.
Angelina has at least 16 other tattoos including a Bengal tiger, runes, Roman numerals, a cross, Easter writings and a quote from Tennessee Williams: “A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.”
Celebrating her health at the New Year is apt for Angelina – in May 2013 Angelina announced she had a double mastectomy to prevent a cancer scare. Her mother Marcheline Bertrand died from cancer in 2007 at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer.
In March it was reported the Mrs And Mrs Smith star also had her ovaries removed.
Her new film First They Killed My Father is based on the 2000 book First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.
It’s a non-fiction account written by Cambodian author Loung Ung, a survivor of the Pol Pot regime during the dictator’s blood-drenched Khmer Rouge years.
