"Bennifer" is back on, but that doesn't mean that Jennifer Lopez doesn't have hard feelings towards Ben Affleck's massive, infamous, back tattoo.
In a clip from 2016, which has been making the rounds since the pair started dating again, the singer was asked about her then ex's ink, and she didn't hold back. "It's awful! I mean, I would tell him that. I would tell him, like, 'What are you doing?" she said during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live.
So, in light of Affleck's phoenix — and J-Lo's disdain for it — we take a look at some of the craziest celebrity tats, starting with the man himself...
Ben Affleck
The Good Will Hunting actor's massive back tattoo certainly has attracted a lot of attention over the years. Despite initially insisting it was temporary, and just for a film, it's definitely real — and here to stay.
During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres show back in 2019, Affleck defended his phoenix tattoo, saying that it is a "meaningful sentiment."
"I was about to say it represents something really important to me!" he told the host. "It's meaningful to me. I like it. It's not something I sort of kept private. The sentiment ran against... but I love my tattoo, I'm happy with it."
Kendall Jenner
In July of 2016, Keeping up with The Kardashians star, Kendall Jenner, got the word "Meow" inked on the inside of her bottom lip.
Two years later, on The Ellen DeGeneres show, Jenner told the talk show host that it was a spur-of-the-moment decision, fuelled by alcohol. "It was literally the first thing that came to my mind," she said. "I don’t know, just my drunk thoughts."
Ryan Cabrera
Ryan Cabrera actually has Ryan Gosling's face tattooed on his right calf.
Speaking about the decision to immortalise the actor on his body, he explained to the Las Vegas Review-Journal: "We like to play a game called tattoo roulette. We blindfold each other: 'You get to pick a tattoo for me, and I get to pick a tattoo for you.' And you don’t get to see it till they’re both done. I'm very proud of it. I consider it the Bentley of tattoos."
Jenni 'JWoww' Farley
Jersey Shore alum, J Woww, sports a sleeve of tattoos featuring her favourite Disney Princesses, Belle, Ariel, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella — but they don't exactly get their fairytale ending.
“[The theme behind the tattoos] is sort of like 'Happily never after,'" she told Inked, per US Weekly. I took my four favorite Disney love stories and flipped them so they are more rooted in reality.
"So with Ariel and Eric, Eric is looking away like he wants nothing to do with her and Ariel is looking at him with desperate puppy eyes,” she explained. "For Beauty and the Beast, he is a real beast. Sleeping Beauty overdosed and is dead. Her prince is crying over her because he knows that he pushed her to that limit. And Cinderella’s prince is beating her. To me, that is the reality of relationships, they are crazy and take hard work — not that happily ever after bullsh*t."
Ed Sheeran
British singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran, actually has a tattoo that says "Galway Grill" on his arm in Saoirse Ronan's handwriting, all because they thought it would be a funny thing to include in the music video.
But now, he has it forever...
Chris Brown
In February of 2020, tattoo artist Joaquin 'Ganga' Lopex posted a photo of a new ink he did for the rapper, Chris Brown, which featured a black and white design of Nike's Air Jordan 3 sneaker — on the right side of Brown's face.
Talk about product placement!
Amanda Seyfried
Actress Amanda Seyfried has the word "minge" tattooed on her foot. It's a bit of an odd one considering that in the UK, we think of "minge" as "vagina".
Seyfriend, and her Mama Mia co-stars, Rachel McDowall and Ashley Lilley, all have the tat — which fortunately, does not mean the same thing in the US.
Speaking about her unconventional ink on Late Night With Seth Meyers back in 2018, Seyfriend said: "It’s a term of endearment, and in England, it means 'vagina'. But in the US, which is where I spend most of my time, it just doesn’t mean anything. So we commemorated out friendship with "minge" tattoos. There’s a lot of judgment. [But] It means so much more to me than vagina."
Grimes
In April of 2021, Grimes took to Instagram to show off her new ink: a sprawling full back design in white ink, which she said resembles "beautiful alien scars".
"Don’t have a good pic cuz it hurts too much and I need to sleep," she captioned the post. "It’ll be red for a few weeks, but gna be beautiful alien scars [sic]."
Aaron Carter
The singer actually got a large face tattoo of Medusa, which has proved to be quite the statement!
The giant face ink was inspired by Rihanna's own Medusa tattoo, and was created by Herchell L Carrasco. As you could imagine, it didn't come cheap, and reportedly set Carter back $5,000.
"Medusa is my protector so if you want to come at me with some negativity, my Medusa will stare you in the eye and turn you into stone," he told Entertainment Tonight.
Lena Dunham
Girls actor, Lena Dunham, got a large tattoo on the back of her neck in 2019, which read "SICK".
The ink was a testament to her struggle with endometriosis, as she explained in an Instagram caption: "Sometimes the thing you’re most scared of being called is the best thing you can call yourself. thank you @havenstudiobk for labeling me. And to my sisters in this dizzying but starry slog - i am lasso'd to you! [sic]."
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