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Victoria Beckham lasers off her ’embarrassing’ tattoos

Victoria seems embarrassed about her tattoos - probably because she thinks they’re cheap and tacky.
Melanie Griffiths

Someone needs to remind celebrities that while trends may come and go tattoos last forever.

As David Beckham continues to add to his body art his wife Victoria seems to been firmly focused on getting her tattoos removed.

The 41-year-old pop-singer-turned-fashion designer has reportedly undergone laser treatment to remove some of her ink because she now finds the permanent scribbles cringe-worthy, an insider tells The Sun.

“Victoria seems embarrassed about her tattoos – probably because she thinks they’re cheap and tacky,” says the source.

“But it’s still surprising she would so readily get rid of ones that had such sentimental meaning to her in the past.”

Giving weight to the rumours the stylish mother-of-four has been spotted out and about at New York Fashion Week in recent days with a fading bit of body art on her back – a vertical piece down the nape of her neck and spine which in Hebrew reads: ‘I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.’

The Daily Mail reports that Victoria has already zapped away two other tattoos from her wrist – one marking the day she and David renewed their wedding vows and the second a phrase in Latin that said ‘again from the start’ which she got when her family relocated to America in 2007.

Victoria’s reasons for ditching her ink is a bit different to the usual celebrity laser story – ie ever-lasting love gone sour. There have been many celebrities who declared their beau’s names tattooed to their bodies before changing their minds.

As David Beckham continues to add to his body art his wife Victoria seems to been firmly focused on getting her tattoos removed.

While Melanie tried to hide her ink under some makeup the message is clear: Think before you ink! The veteran actress had to remove Antonio Banderas’ name when her marriage to the actor broke down in 2014.

When Eva Longoria was blissfully in love with her basketballer ex-husband, Tony Parker she tattooed his jersey number, “nine” on her neck. When they broke up due to infidelity rumours she divorced him and in October 2012 she was seen with a red patches where the number used to be.

In 2011 Megan Fox told Italian Magazine Amica that she was removing her Marilyn Monroe forearm tattoo. “It is a negative character, as she suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar. I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life,” said Fox.

Heidi Klum got a tattoo of her ex-hubby Seal’s name along the inside of her arm. Since the couple’s divorce the German supermodel is reportedly removing the tat.

Charlie Sheen had ex-wife Denise Richards name inked on his wrist and when they divorced he lasered it off.

Kelly Osbourne said she got most of her tattoos to deflect from her inner emotional issues. “I was miserable and I just went and got all these tattoos and I don’t know why. One of them is a keyboard and I don’t even know how to play a piano!” Kelly told Us Weekly in 2010.

According to reports Mel B admitted she got ex-boyfriend, Eddie Murphy’s name on her hip in 2007. Since that rocky relationship ended Mel had the ink removed.

Former wild woman Angelina Jolie infamously had ex-husband, Billy Bob Thorton’s name etched on her skin as a sign of her love. When their three-year marriage ended in 2003 she replaced it with the longitudes and latitudes of the birth places of her six children.

Okay, she may not regret this now but UK singer Cheryl Cole’s giant rose illustration on her derrière is causing many to speculate that it’s only a matter of time before Ms Cole wished she put her tattoo days behind her when she got this inked.

Singer Pharrell had his full sleeve of tattoos taken off in 2009. On his blog artist wrote: “Laser treatment bitches! Extra crispy. See, no skin graft here, just pure laser pain. This is our own version of Mythbusters! Laser is the new primer.”

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