Angelina Jolie's Tattoos: What They Mean and How They've Changed

Selections from Jolie's Body Ink

Angelina Jolie's tattoos are a reflection of her rollercoaster life-- her youth spent experimenting with sadomasochism and wild love affairs, to her current life as a doting mother and humanitarian. What hasn't changed during her complete life makeover is her love for ink and today she is undoubtedly the most popular tattooed female celebrity in the world. This talented actress, who is blessed with exotic good looks, has more than a dozen tattoos and shows no signs of slowing down her collection.

Many people wander about the meaning of Angelina Jolie's many tattoo's—and I'm no different! Having spent years following the evolution of her body art, this is my roundup of some of my favorites of her tattoos along what they mean to Angelina.

Angelina Jolie's Arm Tattoos

Angelina Jolie's left arm used to be adorned with "Billy Bob", in honor of her second husband. As her life progressed and she found new love in her current partner Brad Pitt, she had that tattoo lasered off. Her upper arm now features a list of the latitude and longitude coordinates for the birthplaces of all her children: adoptees Maddox (Cambodia), Zahara (Ethiopia), and Pax (Vietnam), plus natural-born Shiloh (Namibia), and twins Vivienne and Knox (France). There are six sets of coordinates listed, with the Nice, France numbers duplicated twice (once for each twin).

Her left inner forearm features a quote from Tennessee Williams that reads "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" while her right forearm has an Arabic symbol that translates to "determination". That same arm also features the Roman numeral 13 to indicate that Angelina doesn't believe in superstitions (and isn't afraid of an "unlucky" number) and a tattoo of the letter "H," in honor of her older brother, James Haven.

Angelina Jolie's Stomach Tattoos