Here are the hottest magazine cover girls of 2008, and their rich collection of body art.

Alyssa Milano

Alyssa Milano graces the cover of Jezebel Magazine March 2008 issue looking all the more gorgeous with age. Could it be that this Charmed lady’s lovely tattoos, which are prominently located on her right wrist and lower stomach, give her a youthful glow?

Alyssa has a tattoo of a snake biting its tail on her right wrist. The actress says it’s a symbol of rebirth. On her left wrist is the Buddhist symbol of Om, which reminds her of her ex-husband. She also has rosary beads on her back, an angel tattoo on one ankle and a vine of flowers on the other. She has a fairy on her hip, and sacred heart on her lower back.

Angelina Jolie

Clearly the most popular tattooed female celebrity in the world, Angelina Jolie covers Harper Bazaar’s December 2008 issue with pure glamour.

Angelina’s stunning looks and acting prowess have won the hearts of many, especially with her tough-chick flicks such as “Tomb Raider” and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” This gorgeous actress is also gifted with at least a dozen tattoos.

She has a huge tiger tattoo for a tramp stamp, and the famous coordinates of the origins of her adopted kids on her shoulder. Angelina’s tats are a reflection of her personality - exotic with a hint of dangerous sensuality.

Anna Kournikova

Anna Kournikova covers Maxim October 2008 wearing a shiny gold bikini. This tennis queen sports a stunning tribal flower tattoo on her lower back.

Beyonce Knowles

Beyonce Knowles is on the cover of Marie Claire Magazine October 2008 issue. Rocking the blogosphere with her alleged name change (Sasha Fierce anyone?), Beyonce rocks a tribal tat on her left thigh.

Britney Spears

Comeback queen Britney Spears covers the December 2008 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, showing off her new bod. Clearly, Britney has marked her presence in the music scene once more with her latest album entitled “Circus.” Britney’s songs Womanizer, and Kill the Lights are already climbing the charts; proof of just how much the world has missed the pop star.

The rebellious Britney has a number of tats on her now-again gorgeous body. She has a fairy on her back, butterfly tattoos on her foot, a small daisy on her right foot, Hebrew characters on her neck. The singer is also said to have gotten a flower tat and a pair of pink dice inked somewhere on her body.

Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera lands on the cover of Us Weekly in its June 2008 issue. Sharing her secrets on how she got her body back, Christina wore a seemingly Mariah Carey-inspired pink ensemble that flaunted her dangerous curves.

Xtina also loves to flaunt her pretty tattoos. The pop diva has ‘Xtina’ tattooed prominently placed on the back of her neck. She also has a small flower on her left wrist, an intricate design on the inside of her left forearm, and an unknown tattoo just below her bikini line.

Not only is Christina inked, but she also is pierced. Known body piercings of the four-octave singer include one on her left nostril, a labret, her right nipple, and several alleged genital piercings.

Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci was Hobo Magazine cover girl for its July 2008 issue. The “Black Snake Moan” star has a number of tattoos on various parts of her body. She has the famous Aslan tat on her right shoulder blade. She also a fairy tattoo on the inside of her right wrist, praying hands on her left hip, sweet peas on her lower back, a sparrow on her right breast, and the words Move or Bleed on the left side of her ribcage.

Denise Richards

Shape Magazine employed the cover girl prowess of sexy Denise Richards for its May 2008 issue. Though her career is not in a very good shape as of late, Denise still manages to stay in tip-top physical shape, making it hard to ignore the cute fairy ink and ‘Charlie’ tat taking residence on her shapely body.

Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore opened the US Presidential Election month by gracing the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Magazine November 2008 issue clad in patriotic colors. Drew herself is quite the patron of tattoos; she has at least 5 known tattoos on different parts of her anatomy.

Drew has a bouquet of flowers on her left hip, a butterfly on her tummy, a small black crescent moon on her toe, a stylized cross tattoo on her lower right leg, and two angels on her lower back.

Halle Berry

Esquire Magazine posed Halle Berry on the November 2008 issue cover. The sexy actress, who played Storm in the X-Men trilogy, tattooed the name of her first husband onto her right buttock. After the divorce, she has the tattoo changed into a sunflower.

Why a sunflower? Halle told the UK edition of Cosmopolitan Magazine: “I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I’d never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better.”

Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum is the cover girl of InStyle Magazine’s December 2008 issue. The gorgeous Victoria’s Secret supermodel decided to tattoo her husband’s name ‘Seal’ on the inside of her right arm, to show her utmost love and devotion.

Janet Jackson

Superstar Janet Jackson covers the February 2008 issue of Ebony Magazine, proving that she still has it. Well, if ‘has it’ means she has a nipple piercing, then she definitely has it. Thanks to that wardrobe malfunction, the whole world is well aware.

Janet allegedly has many more body piercings as well, such as her ears, her septum, her navel, her tongue, and her genitals. Janet also has several body tattoos. She has a Borneo-style scorpion design on the small of her back, a Kanji tattoo on the back of her neck and a “Sankofa” on the inside of her right wrist.

Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba covers Elle Magazine’s February 2008 issue. The star of “Dark Angel” and “Fantastic Four” sports various tattoos on her body, specifically Sanskrit, Lotus Flower, Daisy, and Ladybug.

Jessica Biel

Jessica Biel is the cover girl for the Marie Claire December 2008 issue. Jessica sports her famous dove tattoo located at her lower left tummy. The tat stands out in a pair of jeans or in a hot bikini. Jessica goes for small tats with huge impact.

Kate Hudson

The Cosmopolitan Magazine October 2008 issue features Kate Hudson on the cover. Kate has one little star tattoo on her foot. Though it’s not very noticeable, she did try to showcase it in one of her pictorials.

Mandy Moore

Mandy Moore lands on the cover of Elle Magazine in a white ensemble. Totally immaculate at a glance but wait to till you see her hammerhead shark tat and tribal armband - she’s one edgy cover girl.

Megan Fox

GQ October 2008 cover girl is none other than”Transformers” hottie Megan Fox. Megan did care to explain what her tattoos are. Here’s how she did it: “…a poem I wrote on my ribcage and a symbol for strength on my neck, and my boyfriend Brian’s name tattooed next to my pie”. Now that’s hot.

Penelope Cruz

Penelope Cruz covers W Magazine August 2008 issue. Penelope has an ankle tattoo that says ‘883.’ What does that mean? Well, it looks like we need a numerologist to decipher the code. Pen is really planning to give us a hard time huh.

Numerologist Christine Delorey who wrote the book “Life Cycles” has this to say about Pen’s ankle tat: “In her chart, eight and three pop up as her main numbers in life. Eight stands for money, power and success and three stands for skill in communications and creativity. The second eight is to strengthen the power of the first. Penelope wants to win - she is very aggressive in terms of her career.”

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

You can be pregnant and be a cover girl without getting naked. That’s what Rebecca Romijn-Stamos did for Page Six magazine in its November 2008 issue. This gorgeous supermodel has a cute tat on her ankle.

Rihanna

Rihanna is on the cover of Elle Magazine’s June 2008 issue. Rihanna is definitely an ink lover, as proven by her 11 precious tattoos. She currently rocks a music note tattoo on her ankle, a Pisces sign behind her right ear, a Sanskrit prayer going down her hip, a star in her left ear, the word ‘love’ on her left middle finger, an Arabic phrase on her ribcage area, meaning ‘Freedom is God,’ a trail of stars going down the back of her neck, a cute skull tattoo with a pink hair bow, the phrase ’shhh…’ on her right index finger, the date ‘4.11.1986′ on top of her left shoulder, and the last but not least, a henna-style dragon claw, complete with Hawaiian hibiscus flowers.

Who knows? Rihanna might have a fresh tat in the works before the year ends?

Rose McGowan

Rolling Stone Magazine features two roses on one cover - Rosario Dawson and Rose McGowan. The latter is sporting a pinup girl tattoo on her shoulder that appears to embody Rose McGowan’s personality.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar looks stunning on the cover of Movieline Magazine. In real life, Buffy has at least 3 tattoos. She has a heart / dagger design on her right ankle, a dragonfly on her lower back, and a hieroglyphic symbol located on her left hip.

Scarlett Johansson

“The Other Boleyn Girl” star Scarlett Johansson covers the December 2008 issue of Allure Magazine. The actress sports a brightly colored tat on her left forearm. The tat has a design of a sun setting over an ocean with a star shining in the sky. This celebrity tattoo looks quite cartoonish, but we love it over Scarlett’s pale skin.

Sienna Miller

Elle Magazine featured Sienna Miller on a memorable 2008 cover. Sienna sports a 3-star tattoo on her right shoulder and a medium-sized swallow design on her left wrist.

Victoria Beckham

Victoria ‘Posh’ Beckham started the year right with her Elle January 2008 magazine cover. The infamous Posh Spice has had several tats for several reasons. Her latest addition is a Hebrew text taken from the Song of Songs 2:16 that says, “I am my beloved and my beloved is mine.” That was for her 6th wedding anniversary with husband David.

Victoria also has a tattoo on her lower back. It started with three stars symbolizing each of the family members. When her two younger sons came, the three stars became five. The actress / model also has a Roman Numeral tattoo for May 8 1997, the day Victoria and David had sex for the first time.

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Actor Jason Mewes is standing in the living room of his Los Angeles home, taking off his shirt. Positioned in front of his laptop’s webcam, he shows off the “15 or 16″ tattoos he’s acquired during his 34 tumultuous years. He lifts his shirt and motions first to an elaborate tribal design on his shoulder. “I got this one in Santa Cruz … and this one in Des Moines,” Mewes says. “This one’s from when I was 20, and I got this one in Utah after playing a prisoner with all these fake tattoos. The guy was gonna do a solid tribal on me, but I was like, “You know what, I want a face in there. Nothing too happy, though, not like a clown, you know?”

The irony is that Mewes is best known as Jay, the clowning, weed-dealing, cuss-spewing half of Jay and Silent Bob, the stoner movie icons made famous in director Kevin Smith’s 1994 indie classic Clerks. The role launched Mewes’ career while his real life became jagged, drug-addled, and far from hilarious.

Born in New Jersey in 1974, Mewes was an average hockey-and-comicbook- loving high schooler when his friend Smith, three years his senior, mentioned he was writing a movie featuring Jay, a character based on Mewes. Clerks, famously made for just $27,000, became a massive hit, and Mewes went on to reprise the role of Jay in nearly all of Smith’s other movies, including Mallrats, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Clerks II (lucky for him, he dodged Jersey Girl), and land roles in little-seen movies such as Feast and Paulie Shore Is Dead. Mewes also developed a full-blown drug addiction. During that time, his mother was diagnosed with AIDS and later succumbed to the disease in 2002. Caught between professional success and personal hell, Mewes would pop up in a movie and then disappear for months. Rumors of his death circulated, and at one point a warrant was issued for his arrest. Now five years into his sobriety, Mewes has a new movie, the Smith-helmed Zack and Miri Make a Porno, that’s already generating buzz. Like each of his tattoos, Mewes has a hell of a story to tell.

INKED: What was your very first tattoo?

MEWES: My brother’s girlfriend gave me this little dot on my wrist with a pin, some thread, and India ink when I was 12 years old. More than 20 years later, that thing is staying strong.

You also have several tattoos of girls’ names, including Jordan, your girlfriend. What if it doesn’t work out? Nah, it’s not a big deal. Look, I have “Amy” - an ex - on my neck, and I have “Kat,” too. They’re all different chapters in my life. Jordan is the only girl I’ve ever had a real relationship with - we live together, we have a dog, we share bank accounts. She even knows the passwords to my bank accounts. All my other relationships revolved around drinking, drugs, and partying. The only time I think it would be a bummer is if I came home one day and Jordan was getting double-teamed by two big dudes. Would you ever have a tattoo removed or covered up? Oh, hell no. They all have their own stories.

What are your other tattoos? I have Kevin Smith’s daughter’s name down my spine. I have Justice League stuff, Daredevil, Bullseye. And this is Batman. This one right here on my thigh is the Road Runner tattoo I got when I was 18. Have you ever seen any Jay and Silent Bob tattoos? I have. I have a picture on my phone of a guy with one. I’ve seen three or four people with the Jay and Silent Bob animated characters, and one guy had an actual portrait of me, which is weird. It had the beanie cap and shit, sort of Jay, though, which was bizarre. Can you set the record straight about how you met Kevin? We went to high school together, and I knew who he was, but we didn’t hang out because he was three years older. After he graduated, he worked at our town’s community center, and every day after school I’d go there to play hockey, kickball, and pool. Then a group of us started hanging out and going to comic shows.

Is it true that he didn’t like you at first? Probably. Some of my friends were going to New York for a comic book convention, and Kevin was like, “I’m not driving a minor over state lines,” because he didn’t want me to go. But then our buddy Brian said he’d drive. So not only did I get to go -I called shotgun. I was being silly, and those guys were laughing at me. It wasn’t that Kevin didn’t think I was funny, it was that he was the funny one of the group and now there was this new dude. After doing seven of Kevin’s movies, what’s the best part of working with him? I know him and I’m comfortable. I’ve done maybe 10 other movies with other directors, and, not that I don’t enjoy myself, but it’s a different vibe because Kev and I have been friends for so long. Some of the other directors are so stressed about getting the shots, they don’t really care about the actors’ performances. If there’s tension, I’m tense. With Kevin, it’s comfy.

Aw, that’s cute. So you’d never acted before Clerks? I did a few elementary school plays, and then I did a talent show my freshman year of high school. We lip-synched to the Beastie Boys. Didn’t you work at the Quick Stop, where a lot of Clerks was filmed? Yeah, Kevin and I both worked there, and then he got me a job at the video store next door, where Clerks was also shot. So I’d work there, and he’d be at the convenience store, and I’d shut down the video store and hang out with him. Were you freaked out making a movie for the first time? It was kind of a blur because I was so nervous. Even though Kevin wrote the character based on me, he remembers me being like, “Kev, I don’t know if I can do this.” I was so freaked out performing in front of the cameras with everyone watching.

So you combated the nervousness with drugs and alcohol. Exactly. I’d get drunk every day on beer and blackberry brandy. I was also working as a roofer at the time, so I’d roof all day and shoot at night. I remember watching the finished movie in the video store, and I thought that was it. I didn’t understand the process of making movies, and I didn’t know about Sundance or Cannes. I went back to work and didn’t think anything about it, and then Kevin was like, “Yo, we got into a festival and Miramax bought it, and it’s gonna be out in some theaters.” That was cool, but even after that, I still worked. It wasn’t until Mallrats that I quit my job.

How did your new fame change your life the most? It didn’t hit me until Mallrats. This sounds corny, but I grew up in a small town in Jersey and I’d never been anywhere besides New York. I’d never been in a limo except for prom, and I’d never stayed in a hotel. The only things I knew about California were palm trees, Beverly Hills Cop, and 90210.

What was your first impression of Los Angeles? I flew out to do a table read for Mallrats, and I remember they picked me up in a limo, and there were the palm trees, and the song “Hotel California” came on, and it was awesome. Then, in Minnesota, where we shot the movie, there were, like, 50 crew members, and everyone was like, “Can I get you coffee? Can I get you this?” On top of all that, we got $400 per diem. It was surreal.

Did all of that money go toward partying? Well, every night after shooting, we’d all meet in the lobby of the hotel to drink, but usually someone from production would pay for it. I mainly spent mine on CDs and action figures.

You’ve been candid about your drug addiction. Do you remember the first time you used? I drank and smoked weed a little bit in high school, and I think I was 20 the first time I tried coke. The first time I did heroin was on my 21st birthday. My friend Mike was seeing this girl, and I started messing around with her friend, so the four of us were hanging out a lot. I didn’t realize they were doing heroin every day. At first I didn’t want to be around it, because I hated dope. I stopped hanging with them, but that lasted a week. Then I was like, “Let’s hang out, but please don’t do it around me.” So on my 21st birthday, I wanted to go out drinking, and they were like, “We’re just gonna sit in, man, and do dope.” I got some beers, and they were all doped up, and I was sitting there by myself trying to drink and be loud and have fun while they were nodding out and shit. Finally I was like, “Let me get some. I don’t get it, it doesn’t look fun to me.” But then I tried it.

And? And it was awesome. I remember cuddling with the girl and it was this whole new…. But it was bad business. From there, I started doing it on weekends, and then three, four times a week, and the next thing you know, I’m fully strung out and needing to do it every day. That went on and off for like eight, nine years.

At your lowest point, how much money were you spending a day on drugs? There were days when I had tons of money and I was doing a lot of crack. I was shooting crack and dope. You can shoot crack if you break it down with lemon juice, so I was doing both and spending tons of money. Some days I’d spend $400 to $500 in one day, and then the next day I’d spend $200. At the very least, I was spending $200 a day or $1,400 to $1,500 a week and maybe $6,000 a month. Then I’d run out of money and I’d have to get by. When I’d get tight on money, I’d only do $100 a day.

Did you try to get clean? I would get sober and work for a few months, like on Dogma, but as soon as I’d get home I’d get messed up again. Or I’d quit dope for two months, but I’d still drink and smoke pot, then I’d start doing dope again. Finally, I realized I couldn’t drink or do any mind-altering drugs. I was out in L.A., and there was a warrant out for my arrest for getting busted with a bag of dope in 1999, so I went back to Jersey and turned myself in. I knew they’d either put me in jail, where I wouldn’t be able to get drugs, or they’d put me in rehab and it would all stop, which I was hoping. Luckily, I got six months in rehab.

Were you ever tempted to jump the fence at rehab? Oh, yeah. But if I decided to take off, I’d have to do four years in jail, so that kept me from wanting to leave. After six months in rehab, I flew back to L.A. and moved back in with Kevin until I got back on my feet.

Was it strange to read about your life in the tabloids? There were rumors that you were dead. It was weird. I don’t read the tabloids, but I did have a cousin who’d read that I was dead in a paper, so she called me and was like, “We haven’t heard from you and wanted to make sure you’re okay.” I try not to read anything, even now, because if 10 people say nice things but one person says something nasty, it bothers me.

What ever happened to Rock Bottom, the HBO documentary about you kicking heroin? It got shut down. I was in a really bad place when this guy, who wound up being a crazy con artist, offered to pay me if I would shoot this documentary. I said yes, so he picked me up in a big Winnebago, and they filmed me going to rehab. After being sober for a few months, I was like, “Whoa, what did I do? That was retarded letting them watch me kick dope and shit.” Now that my head was a little clearer, I called the dude. He had told me if I didn’t like it, he wouldn’t put it out. But that wasn’t the case. I said, “Look, I don’t want it coming out, I’m sorry. Squash it.” He’s like, “No, we’re gonna do it.” So we brought it to a judge, and we got the footage, and then the guy disappeared. I guess he had kept some of the footage, because a year after everything was settled, it leaked onto YouTube.

Did you watch it? I did, and it was horrible - me all messed up. He put a hidden camera in the room when I was sick and going through withdrawal. Just stuff you never want to see. Luckily, YouTube took it down.

Do you think you still would have been a drug addict if you hadn’t started making movies? Oh, yeah. It didn’t have anything to do with movies. I started doing this back in Jersey with friends I’d hung out with for years. When you go to California, no one really offers you heroin or anything. It’s got nothing to do with movies or Hollywood or clubs.

Your new movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, is the first Kevin Smith movie in which you’re not playing Jay, right? Yeah, Kevin was like, “I’m making a new movie with all different characters - no Jay or Bob. No Brian or Dante.” He wrote this character, Lester, for me, and he’s totally different. He’s got short hair and he wears a wife beater. I even have my clothes off in a few scenes.

Whoa! Full frontal? Well, they’re shooting a porno, and I audition for it. I don’t know how much I should give away. I’m sure if I said certain shit, Kevin would be like, “Dude, why did you tell everyone that?” I will say that I’ve seen a rough cut and it’s really funny.

Have you ever filmed yourself having sex? No, I’ve never taped myself.

But it says on your MySpace page that your interests are “sex, sex, sex.” Yeah, I’m interested in having sex, but I’m not interested in watching myself have sex. I don’t want to see my pasty little ass going up and down and shit. Do you?

By: Alison Prato, photos by Mike Piscitelli - Inked Magazine

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Take one look at the half-sleeves blanketing both of his upper arms and it’s clear Montel Williams lives up to his talk show’s slogan, “There’s More to Montel.” Who would have ever guessed that underneath those neatly pressed shirts, this fixture of daytime jibber jabber is hiding intricate ink murals by the likes of the legendary Zulu from Zulu Tattoo?

The “moreness” of Williams extends way beyond his surprising love of tattooing. He’s an avid snowboarder, a skilled poker player, and an ex-military spy who speaks Russian and served in the invasion of Grenada. There’s also more to a man who, despite suffering from multiple sclerosis, travels the country as the spokesman for the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, an organization committed to getting drugs into the hands of those who can’t afford them. He’s also a proponent for legalizing marijuana for medicinal use. There’s just one problem: There is no more.

The Montel Williams Show’s 17-year run is up, the grand finale has already aired, and the surplus of unaired episodes runs dry after September. Has the man of more finally given the public all he has to offer? “Forget that noise,” he quips. “I’m not even close to being done.” We’re inclined to believe him.

INKED: Montel Williams has tattoos?

WILLIAMS: Yeah, I think most people are surprised by that. It’s an odd one.

What got you started?

I spent 22 years in the Navy and Marines, both enlisted

and as an officer. I came off active duty in 1989 and back then the military

really frowned down on tattoos, especially amongst the officers. I always

wanted one but never pulled the trigger. Then in 2001, I just said, “You know

what? I’m getting one.” My first was the snowboarder guy on my left arm. But

like many of us, I couldn’t just have one. It grew.

You have several tattoos of a human-bobcat creature. Where is it from?

That’s a half-human, half-panther alter ego of myself. He looks like Tony the Tiger on crack. When I was a kid, that was the doodle on all of my notebooks,and when I made the football team, I drew it on my helmet. One day, I was looking through a package of my old stuff and I found an old doodle. I thought, “This ought to be a tattoo.”

Your right arm has an insane amount of detail. What is it all?

The whole right arm was done by Zulu in Los Angeles. In the middle is a trio of half-human,half-animal people, and if you look at the half-man half-panther he’s got all sorts of things on him that are important to me. Going up his leg are all the ranks I achieved as a Marine. His belt buckle is the eagle, globe, and anchor emblem from the Marine Corps, while the thing on his chest is the Meritorious Service Medal I got in the Navy. Each of the half-cat women has a sword on her leg - one is the Marine Corps sword, one is the Navy sword.

What’s the stuff all around them?

Those are things I had to do in the military. I was airlifted in and out of Grenada during the invasion, so there’s a Huey [helicopter]. I rappelled and did some parachuting, so there’s a parachute. The two round circles, that’s really an “80″ for my Naval Academy class. Below that there’s a spyglass because when I was in the military I was a spy. Underneath that is a pair of headphones because, as a spy, I spoke Russian and I used to have to listen in on conversations. At the bottom are two submarines. One is the USS Seahorse, which was the submarine I was on when it chased down the other submarine there, a Soviet Typhoon.

You were on a sub that chased down a Russian sub?

Oh yeah. We were the only submarine to do something called an “underhull” of a Typhoon, which was the most powerful sub they had at the time. That’s when one sub is underneath another one taking pictures of it while they’re both moving through the water.

They had no idea you were there?

Nope. If they knew they would have killed us. At the closest spot we were about 15 feet apart. If the other guy decided to dive, we’d have been dead.

Do you have any tattoos that aren’t visible?

On the front side of my hip right over that pelvic bone I have a panther head about six inches in diameter. It went right across that bone and … oh my God … worse than under your arm, worse than your collarbone. My God that took me off the table. That was one of those five minutes, stop, five minutes, stop, for about three hours.

Is it important for you to be able to cover them?

Well, I don’t want someone to immediately have an opinion about me based on a first view. But I’ll tell you something strange: I’ve been on television for the last 17 years talking about some of the most important issues facing our nation. For the last eight of them, I’ve been doing so with earrings in my ear. No one has ever said a word. I don’t think you’ll find another news anchor or TV host with three earrings. Howie Mandel copied me. He asked me once how I get away with them and I said, “Dude, no one has ever said a thing.” The next week he has one earring. The week after that he has two! I shouldn’t be so worried about the tattoos, but I let you see them when I want you to see them.

Why was snowboarding the subject of your first tattoo?

It’s a huge part of my life. It’s unbelievably therapeutic for me because snowboarding is all in the ankles and knees, and that’s where I’ve had the most difficulty with my MS. For the last few years I’ve snowboarded over 100 days a year, but my schedule is off this year and I haven’t gone. I’ve tried to replicate the movements on machines at the gym, but it hasn’t really worked. This has been my worst walking year in a long time.

Are you still using medical marijuana to relieve your symptoms?

Without a doubt, and I will until the day I die. I’m a proponent. I’ve testified around the country in every state that has legislation pending.

Why is smoking a joint preferable to popping a Percocet?

I’m just asking for my doctor to have the right to prescribe it just like he has the right to prescribe morphine or cocaine. Under Bill Clinton there was a study funded by taxpayers that attempted to refute marijuana’s medical efficacy. The study came back the opposite. It said that it was the most egregious offense that marijuana was not being prescribed by doctors. People have to understand that the pharmaceutical industry makes about 190 different pain medications. That’s because not one medication will work for more than 28 percent of the population. So, I might take a pill and it might not work. And the next pill might not work and the next pill might not work. Marijuana won’t work for everyone either. But give my doctor the right to make that choice, not some bunch of bean heads wearing bad ties and bad suits down on Capitol Hill.

Will it ever be legalized?

No question. Right now there are 13 states that have already passed medicinal marijuana

laws that allow doctors to prescribe. In another two years we’ll be up to 19 states. When we hit 25, the federal government can’t stop it. And the presidential candidates are 100 percent for changing the way marijuana is persecuted,

prosecuted, or processed. So, the tide is changing.

Do you have political ambitions yourself?

Politics will be in my future whether it’s from an elected position or from a lobbying position. I believe very strongly that if

you complain about the ills of our society and do nothing about it, you should keep your damn mouth shut.

You’re referring to yourself?

I do a lot of complaining about the ills of society, so it’s time for me to step up to the plate and do something about it in a leadership role.

Do you think we’ll see our first African-American president elected this year?

I have no idea about this election and I don’t think most of America does either. We’re not informed enough. We follow the media with a hook in our mouths like lemmings being pulled over a cliff.

But you’re part of the media.

I am part of it, and I’m glad I’ve quit for right now. It’s offensive to watch supposed news pundits swill on their individual opinions in an attempt to sway people to vote the way they do. Most people voting this year don’t have the slightest idea who they’re voting for. They only have the media’s impression of who the person is. Some might say this happens every

election, but it doesn’t. This election is definitely worse.

Was there a watershed moment that created this climate or has it been a gradual shift?

The watershed would have to be the entire Clinton abomination with Monica Lewinsky. All bets are off when we start dragging dresses out of closets to test them for the president’s DNA. That’s a talk show. We turn it into Jerry Springer

and that’s what we’ve turned this election into.

Since you mention Jerry, how would you say you distinguished yourself from the other guys you shared

the dial with?

One: I respect the living rooms I’m brought into. You can watch my show and not have to worry about

taking a shower at the end to wash the garbage off. Two: The show doesn’t just belabor an issue. If I address an

issue like date rape, I’m going to talk about the situation that lead to what happened and discuss solutions. Three: I’m the only show in the history of television to have an aftercare program - and I’m not talking about three minutes in the green room. We’ve sent about 3,500 guests into aftercare, which has included full-blown medical surgeries and treatment centers for everything from drug addiction to anorexia. Over the last 17 years, I did 3,150 shows and there’s not one I had my name on that I wasn’t proud of.

In 17 years, there’s not a single show you wish you hadn’t done?

There was only one I wanted to pull back. I’m sorry I did it, but I was proud of the way I handled the topic.

What was the topic?

Back in my first year we did a show on infantilism - those freaks that dress up in diapers and run

around the house sucking on bottles playing baby. [Phil] Donahue and Sally [Jessy Raphael] had done it before me

and I had this group of producers who convinced me it would pull great numbers. So, I tried it. After the show aired I

said, “That’s it. Now, I approve every topic and every guest.” From then on I maintained 100 percent creative control.

And now it’s all wrapping up, huh?

People have asked me what’s it going to be like to be retired. Right now, I’ve got four projects that are close to being greenlit, including a reality show I’m producing with the NFL and the next version of The Montel Williams Show. Plus I just signed my eighth book deal. So, I had my finale, but I’m not going anywhere. I’m like Jay-Z: “This is my last tour… This is my last tour….”

One last question. Truth or Internet rumor: Were you a Swiss rodeo clown before getting on TV?

That’s so crazy! Do you know that you’re the fifth person who’s asked me that? Someone else told me that on Wikipedia there’s a whole thing about Connie Chung, Maury Povich, and Montel Williams leading some Internet relationship. Ever heard that one? One day my wife jokingly asked, “Honey, you’ve been cheating on me with Connie Chung and Maury Povich?” But, no, I was not a rodeo clown. That’s funny.

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Chubby, Korean, and bisexual (she admits to all three) in a business that typically has a hard time swallowing that list, Cho’s rank as one of the biggest female comedians on the planet is the result of a one-woman battle, built from her fi rst stand-up comedy gigs in a club near her parents’ book store in San Francisco to tours with Jerry Seinfeld and a showcase full of awards.

For a while, Hollywood won. After a failed TV show attempt, where suits told her she was “too Asian” then hired a coach to train her to be “more Asian,” Cho battled with an eating disorder and alcohol abuse. She returned with a vengeance in 1999’s I’m the One That I Want, her fi rst truly hilarious special, which savaged the suits she experienced in Hollywood. Her follow-up, 2002’s Notorious C.H.O., spawned a best-selling book, DVD, and CD, as did followups Assassin and Revolution. Along the way, she dated Quentin Tarantino and Chris Isaak, launched a clothing company, and took up belly dancing.

Over the last few years, the 39-year-old comedian has also become increasingly linked with the world of ink. She sports original tattoo work by Ed Hardy, LA Ink’s Kat Von D, and Chris O’Donnell. We chatted with Cho about her tattoos (about 50 percent of her body is covered), her spring comedy tour, Beautiful, the secrets of joke telling, and her theories on the proper way to get trashed.

INKED: Your new tour is called . What can we expect?

CHO: I got the idea for the show after a radio interview. The DJ asked me, ‘What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and you were blonde, with blue eyes, and 5′11″ and you weighed 100 pounds and you were beautiful.’ I said, ‘Well, I probably wouldn’t be able to get up because I’d be too weak to stand.’

What an asshole.

I know. But I feel bad for him because that’s the only kind of person he thinks is beautiful. If he doesn’t think I’m beautiful, he is fucking missing out. So the whole show is about wanting to be taken seriously as a beauty. And tattoos are a part of the show. A lot of women my age in Hollywood are getting plastic surgery. But instead, I decided to get tattoos. I want my body to be completely covered when I’m 70 so people won’t be looking at my wrinkles. They’ll be like, ‘Oh my God. Look at her lizard tattoo.’

When did you get your first tattoo?

Just a few years ago. Ed Hardy did it. It covers most of my stomach, my back, and my ribs. It was a huge, ambitious piece for a fi rst tattoo. Since I was a kid, I wanted a Japanese body suit. A guy who worked for my dad has a body suit from Ed. He’s the guy who put me in touch with Ed when I wanted my own.

Are you good at getting tattooed?

I’m a really long sitter. I can sit for fi ve, six, seven hours because I’m really impatient and I want it done. I don’t want to have to keep going back. But tattooing is so hard on the artists’ eyes and their backs. Ed said that he didn’t want to tattoo anymore because he absorbed the pain that people felt. He didn’t want to hurt anybody anymore. It’s sad because he is the greatest, but you can understand that.

When you’re getting tattooed, do you feel like you have to entertain the artist by telling jokes?

Not at all. I try not to distract the artist in any way. I do my best to be quiet, and avoid pulling away or wincing. That’s why I make crazy faces.

Were you worried about the faces you were making while being filmed for ? No, it was great. I love that show and I love Kat. And I love that there are these great women tattooers so I was totally willing to do anything.

Have you ever seen a tattoo on someone and thought, ‘That is the worst tattoo ever?’

Well, my manicurist has this Tweety Bird on her hand. I don’t agree, but I’m never going to say it’s bad. I just wouldn’t do that. Don’t get me wrong. Hands are great to tattoo. Tattoos are great everywhere, even the face, but some tattoos don’t seem to have any emotional resonance, like a Tweety Bird. It’s just a weird choice, but people get what they get. I love most people’s tattoos, even if they’re faded and blurred and old.

You talk a lot about your parents in your routines. How do they feel about your tattoos?

They were really freaked out, my mom especially. My dad saw it coming because the people who they hung around with when I was a kid were tattooed. My mother was like [in Mom voice], ‘Oh! I no like this. I don’t like tattoos.’ But she has her eyebrows tattooed, her eyeliner, her lipstick, so she’s familiar with tattooing too. I mean how do you get your eyelid tattooed? She has eyelid tattoos!

Your dad wrote joke books and you’re a stand-up comedian, so being funny is in your DNA. Give us some tips about telling a joke.

Know the joke you’re telling and don’t laugh while you’re saying it. It’s very important not to laugh.

What’s your favorite joke?

One of my favorites is from The Marijuana-Logues with Doug Benson. He says, ‘I just got some Marvin Gaye weed. It’s called Marvin Gaye weed because after you take one hit, you’re like, ‘What’s going on?” And I love how Chris Rock responded when someone asked him, ‘Do you think America is ready for a black president?’ He replied, ‘Well, why not? America was ready for a retarded president.’

Are comedy tours anything like rock ‘n’ roll tours?

They’re nothing like rock tours. Last year, I did a rock tour and shared a bus with the Dresden Dolls. On comedy tours, it’s just me and my tour manager on a plane fl ying between cities. In rock ‘n’ roll, you’re on a bus watching Jackass ’til six in the morning with the crew. Rock tours lend themselves to alcohol, sex, and drugs.

You perform all the time in front of thousands of people. Our readers usually only have to stand up in front of people at work or AA meetings. What are some tips on getting over stage fright?

Put yourself in the audience. Think, ‘If I were sitting down I would totally listen to me. I’d be interested in what I was going to say.’ It takes the sting out of it. It becomes less scary. And if you know what you are going to talk about it’s less scary. A lot of times people aren’t prepared, and that’s when they get nervous. It’s too nerve-racking to pull something out of your ass.

You run in celebrity circles. So many stars are screwed up these days. What is going on?

Fame has changed a lot. It’s invasive. Stars are under constant surveillance. There was a picture of Britney Spears online that showed she had a huge period stain on her underwear. I was so pissed. That’s happened to me so many times. In fact, that’s why I haven’t moved in so long, because I have the most period-stained mattress in the world. It looks like I killed somebody on it. If I took it outside, cops would put up “Do Not Cross” tape.

So how do you deal with fame?

I’m certainly not as famous as Britney, but I have learned some survival techniques. Like when you get fucked up, just take one poison at a time. Don’t mix pills with alcohol. Just take pills or drink. If you’re going to smoke something, just smoke one drug. Don’t cross breeds. And don’t smoke pot and drink at the same time. That’s a disaster waiting to happen.

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This rep is bolstered by Tracy Jordan, the comedian’s thinly veiled and completely batshit alter ego on 30 Rock, who is just as prone to bust out with wild pronouncements and other inmate-running-the-asylum behavior. Neither of these, it turns out, is really Tracy Morgan at all.

Take, for example, how the Bronx-born Morgan regards his tattoos. They are treated with the utmost seriousness, and when he talks about them, he’s quick to reflect on the personal reasons behind each one. They’re not trendy, they’re not designed to shock, and they’re really not meant to be any of your business. They keep him grounded. And even though the 40-year-old comic recently had to trade his old Boogie Down tattoo shop in the Bronx (”It’s no longer there. I think it’s a convenience store or something now”) for a swanky spot on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, don’t think Morgan has gone Hollywood.

Always the funny guy, Morgan parlayed his school-yard cracks into a stand-up gig at the legendary Apollo, which led to television roles on Martin and Uptown Comedy Club before he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in the mid-’90s. Now, it’s all movies (he recently finished work on the troubled David O. Russell movie Nailed), a third season of 30 Rock, and not a care in the world, right? Not so fast. While the previous emotional bumps in Morgan’s life might have inspired a forearm tattoo or two, his most recent drama, a messy divorce, required the entirety of his back to absorb it all. But if you were expecting this to make Morgan somber and depressed, allow him to subvert your expectations yet again. “I don’t ever mess with the gift.”

INKED: What was your first tattoo?

TRACY MORGAN: My first tattoo was this one [points to forearm]. A happy face and a sad face. The same thing that makes you laugh makes you cry. That’s always there to remind me. I got this about 10 years ago.

Since your old shop in the Bronx is gone, do you have a new regular place? Yeah, on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. I forget the name of it, but Tupac got his “Thug Life done there. So I got the last five or six done there. I just recently had my back done, about four months ago.

What did you get? A lot of my tats are how I’m feeling at the time, what I’m going through. I got my back done recently because I’m going through a heavy divorce right now and I feel lonely. I don’t have my family with me for all these good times. I mean, God is with me, he’s always with me, but I’m feeling like it’s just me, myself, and I. So that’s what I put on my back: me, myself, and I.

Do you have any tattoos you look back on and regret? No. I don’t regret getting no ink on my body. That’s for life.

Is there a part of your body you would never get tattooed? My butthole. I don’t want no tattoos on my butthole. I’m freaky, but not that motherfucking freaky. Not my brown eye, goddamn it.

Are you good in the chair, or do you squirm? No, I’m pretty good. When I get tatted, most of the time, I get an erection. It turns me on. It does! I don’t know why, but it turns me on.

Has that ever led to awkward moments at the shop? Hell, yeah! If you was tattooing a dude and his dick got hard, wouldn’t you think something was crazy? That’s why I only let women tattoo me.

Do you have a method for talking him down? Think about baseball? I drink a cold Coca-Cola.

Ever run into a celebrity with a crappy tattoo? I don’t study anybody else’s tats like that. I don’t think there’s a shitty tattoo-I think people get tatted because that’s the way they’re feeling at that time. I just don’t like when people get the Chinese letters and they don’t know what they fucking mean. But when women have tattoos, it turns me on. It lets me know they’re fearless. Warriors. You have to be a warrior to get ink, man. That’s where it started.

Would you ever get a face tattoo like Mike Tyson? No. I do TV. I’m a comedian. That would scare people. I want to make people laugh. My tattoos are personal. I have one on my penis that says “Stove Top. Named after the stuffing. Bullshit. No, that’s for real! My girlfriends can verify it.

Did you sport wood getting that one? Yeah. Matter of fact, I came! Is this why people assume you really are your 30 Rock character, Tracy Jordan? It’s pretty close to me. I mean, he’s not me. I’m not Tracy Jordan. Tracy Morgan is a bit calmer, a bit more stable. Tracy Jordan is a figment of my imagination that I get to play with and have fun with. He’s lovable and people like him.

Did Tina Fey let you create the character yourself? No. Tina did that. Tina’s been partying with me.

She saw the crazy side of Tracy from when we were at Saturday Night Life. She just put that on TV. Tina works hard, man. She is the hardest-working woman in show business, seriously. But she’s a mom and a wife first, and she balances it out, and I admire her and I love her. She is my sister from another mother with a different color.

You recently went back to SNL for a Weekend Update segment where you declared, in reference to Barack Obama, that “Black is the new President. Are you usually this political? No, I’m not. I mean, I support Barack Obama, obviously, because he’s a black man, but most of all because he’s a visionary. I buy into his vision. And he has a vision for all people. Not just black people. All people. I’m with that.

So it was a rare thing for you to come out and declare something like that. Yeah. I love pushing the envelope. Some people might get offended, but most people loved it. And I was the one who said it! How cool is that? Tracy Morgan said, “Black is the new president.”

When people see you on the street, what character do they bring up most often? Brian Fellows. I did a movie with Ice Cube called First Sunday, and they bring up that character, LeeJohn. My core audience remembers Hustle Man. And Biscuit. My first character that I ever played was called Biscuit. My first TV show. You also host Scare Tactics on the Sci Fi Channel.

What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever seen? The scariest thing I’ve ever seen was the IRS in my building. Thought they were coming for me. But I’m a good boy. I pay my taxes.

What’s scarier: Aliens or ghosts? I don’t believe in none of them motherfuckers. What’s scarier is real human beings. Human beings are the ones that are scary.

Since that show is on the Sci Fi Channel, are you willing to appear at sci-fi conventions? If I had time I’d do it, because deep down I’m sci-fi myself. Planet of the Apes. Godzilla vs. Megalon. All of that. But it’s fun. It’s a different audience. And I get to be Rod Serling. You’re seeing me in a different light.

Your live TV appearances are legendary. Do you have an idea of what you’re going to do or say, or do you just wing it? I just wing it, man. That’s just me being me. There’s no alcohol, no weed. Sometimes on the Web sites people might say, “Tracy’s drunk. But that’s all me. When I get drunk, I get quiet. And I haven’t had a drink in a year. I don’t mess around no more. I don’t ever mess with the gift.

It’s probably because you never seem like you’re doing material. It seems like- Conversation? Because that’s where I come from. My sense of humor is based in reality. It’s like basting a turkey, you know? My sense of humor is the turkey, but I baste it in reality. When I was younger, I did a lot of written material. But that was a learning ground. It was based on my imagination. Now, a lot of it is based on my observation. What I see every day.

You started doing stand-up at the Apollo. After that, can anything intimidate you? I got booed at the Apollo, man. Can’t nothing fuck with me. Let me tell you something: Way before show business, I was making motherfuckers coming home from 25-to-life laugh. So I know I’m a funny motherfucker. I make fucking sociopaths laugh. That’s where we come from. We know motherfuckers doing years in the hundreds. So where we come from, ain’t nothing much to laugh about, but we found it. I knew just how far to push people without being murdered because in the hood, people are sensitive. So now that I’m making this money, if cats snap on me in the hood, I just let it go. Because I got it. So what does that look like, me snapping on someone who ain’t got it, giving him a reason to kill me? No matter what color you are, people hate famous and rich people. Most people avoid success. Most people are smarter than any job they ever had, but they avoid success because when you’re successful, people hate you and envy you. And most people want other people to love them. But I don’t give a fuck-you can hate me now.

A lot of people think that when a comedian becomes successful, he grows detached from the reality that made him successful in the first place. Ever feel that? No. My people won’t let me. That’s the one thing they’re stubborn about, they won’t let me fake it. I got to stay me, all the way through.

So you’ve always been the funny one? I’ve been funny my whole life. That was a gift that God gave me, when I was an angel up in heaven, before I even got here. I used to make him crack up. But I got into show business because I felt like it was a good way to get girls. It was just us, going to the shows, making girls laugh and getting pussy. Then it turned into a business, and we were like, “Oh, shit! We can get paid!”

You’re working on the movie Nailed with Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel. It had a pretty rough shoot. There were reports it was shut down. Yeah, it was one of those things, man. Unprecedented. The movie was shut down seven times. But it was incredible.

Director David O. Russell has a rep for being … difficult. Yeah, well, he has his process. I love him. He was cool with me.

Is it true your character suffers from a prolapsed anus? Yeah. I thought that was funny as a motherfucker, your asshole hanging out the whole movie

What did you do to research? Talk to anyone with a prolapsed anus? Hell, no! I don’t want anybody that’s ever had a prolapsed anus around me. You mean your fucking asshole bust out? I don’t want you around me. What the fuck were you doing to make your asshole drop out? If you ain’t have a baby, something happened.

Is there anyone in your family you can’t make laugh? My oldest son, Gitrid Morgan. He never laughs. Don’t even appreciate a good sense of humor. Serious motherfucker.

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There is a long line of celebrity tattooed wedded-ringers preceding Stern’s move: Tony Parker, married to Eva Longoria in July, had their wedding date (in roman numerals) tattooed around his finger. Hulk Hogan, Pam and Tommy (RIP), Kathy Griffin, Ashlee Simpson, Jenna Jameson, Beyonce and Jay-Z, Téa Leoni and sex-addict recoveree David Duchovny are among others in the spotlight who consummated their marital vows through inking.

Levi Johnston, the intended spouse of Republican VP Nominee Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter Bristol, tattooed “Bristol” on his ring finger as well, but it’s already starting to smudge - and as a self-proclaimed redneck who “doesn’t want children,” this ink commitment can easily be erased by the hot cherry of a cigarette on a drunken night with the boys.

It is estimated that the majority of folks seeking tattoo removal bear a tattoo that symbolizes a relationship that has come to an untimely end. This is Stern’s second marriage, and as he claims, his last. “I have found the love of my life,” he states. We’ll have to see if his ink commitment, albeit for cosmetic removal, holds him to that.

Check out more celebrity wedding ring tattoos in For the Love of Celebrity Tattoos.

This statistic may be because NBA players operate under a spotlight, and in a uniform, that allow them to expose their tattooed skin. Many other professional sports, such as golf and baseball, don’t offer this extreme freedom of ink expression. But if you’ve watched ESPN as of late, athletes of all sorts don’t seem to care what the rules are.

Here are the top twenty professional athletes with tattoos - 30% from the NBA.

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson will always be considered crazy. This is fair, and if you are in a position like Tyson, it is completely reasonable to get a tattoo on your face. With or with out the tribal image around his eye, I would never let him spend time with my kids.

Shaq

Shaq has super talent and a super ego. He thinks he is superman and he has never been in a room with somebody who thought they could tell him different. His Superman tattoo is a clear representation of what he feels for himself.

Dennis Rodman

There has never been a player in the NBA like Dennis Rodman. He was never a basketball player that needed to have tattoos to prove he was tough. He just always seemed to really like getting ink, and then dressing up like a woman.

Allen Iverson

Most causal NBA fans blame Allen Iverson for ruining the NBA. He made cornrows, headbands, and thuggish tattoos popular in a league that was searching for a replacement for the iconic Michael Jordan.

Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant cheated on his wife and got her name tattooed on his upper arm. I guess buying her a four million dollar ring wasn’t enough.

Natasha Kai

Natasha Kai is fearless on the field and apparently doesn’t mind getting tatted up, either. Her shoulder and upper arm tattoo makes me believe that she could kill me with her bare hands if she wanted to and that will always be kind of hot.

Rasheed Wallace

Rasheed has an interesting sun tattoo on his arm. The sun’s rays beam down onto people who appear to be dancing in the form of spears. Wallace is freakishly talented for his size and he believes that NBA players are basically slaves. That doesn’t make much sense and neither does his tattoo.

Franziska Van Almsick

Model/Olympic swimmer Franziska Van Almsick is trying to market herself in the same way that Anna Kornakova did. Well, her shoulder tattoo is more like something Pink would have.

David Beckham

David Beckham is one of the highest paid athletes in the world, married to a spice girl, and could probably wash his own soccer jersey on his abs. Is it safe to say that his “Romeo” tattoo is a little bit much? If it wasn’t for his son, we’d have to question this tat.

Stephon Marbury

Stephon Marbury actually ruined the NBA. He wishes he was Allen Iverson, but he is just Steve Francis with a bit more passing skills. His tattoos are predictable and only there because he is the NBA.

Larry Hughes

Hughes has tears tattooed under his left eye. He made the decision to get them after he lost his brother in a car accident.

Gilbert Arenas

If you are in the NBA and you play online poker at halftime, flip a coin to decide what team you are going sign with, and spend ten million dollars on a shark tank for your mansion, the tiger tattoo on your stomach probably means something. I guess you have to go read Gilbert’s blog.

Jason Giambi

Giambi did steroids and only half apologized for it to his fans. His arm tattoos are usually covered in his Yankee uniform, but they are evidence of his macho persona that was aided by illegal drugs.

Marquis Daniels

Did you know Marquis Daniels was from Florida?

J.R. Smith

Right J.R. Smith is on the Denver Nuggets with fellow tattoo enthusiast Allen Iverson. Smith’s game is very similar to Iverson’s, but the extent of his tattoos far exceeds AI’s.

Shawn Merriman

If your nickname is “Lights Out” it makes sense to get a tattoo of turned off light switch, right?

Prince Fielder

Prince Fielder is the son of the Cecil Fielder, an almost great power hitter from the ’90s. His neck tattoo spells “Prince” in Japanese. It might as well say “I hate my dad” because Prince has publicly blamed his father for ruining the marriage with his mother with his blatent infidelity.

Chris Johnson

Before you get drafted into the NFL, the most important stat that people look at is your 40 yard dash time. Chris Johnson is proud of his time and has decided to place it on his calf muscles just in case you were wondering what it was.

Jeremy Shockey

Jeremy Shockey is almost a Superbowl champion. He was on the New York Giants last year, but he was hurt for most of the year. He opted to watch the big game from a booth instead of on the field. His tattoos are a clear example of his overt me-first personality that turns everyone off.

Jeff Monson

MMA is the fastest growing sport in the world. Jeff Monson is right in the middle of it and he, like most fighters, has tattoos all over his body because he spends most of his professional life shirtless, sweaty, and bleeding.

Contrary to what most of think, professional athletes are people too. They need attention and, for the successful ones, they generally get more than they can stand. Most pro leagues would rather not have tattoos on their product, but there really isn’t anyway to stop it. Besides, they let us learn more about the people in the world that we love to watch compete.

Tattoos also stand out in the music industry. From Lil Wayne to The Game, check out the most meaningful tattoos in hip-hop.

From neck tattoos and tramp stamps to ankle tattoo designs, nobody looks better in ink than our beloved female celebrities. And the fact that they are willing to show off their body art to the gaping public makes it all the more alluring to sneak a peek.

Here are 35 of the hottest female celebrities and their equally hot tats.

Adriana Lima

This Victoria’s Secret Angel makes every runway event sizzle with her stylish ankle tattoo.

Alyssa Milano

It’s not at all surprising to see Phoebe Halliwell of the ‘Charmed’ wearing a rosary tattoo on her back. The tat adds spiritual effect to the already mystic/paranormal nature of her role.

Angelina Jolie

Instead of writing Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Vietnam, Angelina Jolie tattooed on her left shoulder the coordinates of the origins of her adopted children, Maddox, Zahara, and Pax.

Anna Kournikova

This semi-retired professional Tennis star who rose to worldwide fame because of her grand slam wins and knockout beauty is sporting a hot tribal tramp stamp tattoo that practically adds attitude to that already hot body.

Beyonce Knowles

An image of a praying angel is what Beyonce chose to put on her upper left thigh. I guess this pop star is one funny girl, considering that something as wholesome as a praying angel gets to be placed very close to her delicate parts.

Carmen Electra

Aside from the ‘Eleven XXII’ tattoo on the underside of her left her wrist, Carmen also has a sexy ‘R’ tattoo behind her left ear. Well we don’t really care what that ‘R’ means cause getting a peek at Carmen’s sexy neck is enough to complete our day.

Cheryl Tweedy

Everything in this ensemble looks great. Looks like Cheryl Tweedy knows how to carry a tramp stamp in a very stylish way.

Christina Aguilera

I think this Dirrrty singer should let hair down more often because it’s a shame to hide this sexy ‘Xtina’ tat.

Christina Applegate

A pair of ankle tattoos and a pair of stylish heels: perfect combo for instant inked-up sex appeal.

Christina Milian

Those little red stars on Christina Milian’s hip really did their part in making their master shine like she’s born to wear that sexy bikini.

Christina Ricci

An ‘Aslan’ tattoo on Christina Ricci’s back isn’t something the general public would consider attractive. But the contrast of the childlike innocence of the tat and Christina’s new sexy image just really does it for me.

Drew Barrymore

This tattoo is proof that a butterfly tattoo can look good on someone other than Mariah.

Eva Longoria

Eva’s shows a classy side to the tramp stamp. Her cross tattoo is sexy but not trashy.

Gisele Bundchen

It seems that less is more and small is sexy for supermodel Gisele Bundchen. She has a tiny star tattoo on the underside of her left wrist, and a small crescent moon and stars on the inside of her right ankle.

Heidi Klum

If not for her stylish and iconic arm tattoo, I wouldn’t have recognized Heidi Klum in this weird robotic frock.

Helen Mirren

Who would have thought a tattoo can be a source of eternal youth? Helen Mirren takes her style up a notch by this youthful little tattoo on her left hand.

Holly Valance

Dead Or Alive star Holly Valance is definitely hot. And it only takes a little tattoo near her pelvic area to take that hotness to greater heights.

Jenna Jameson

Jenna has a ‘Heart Breaker’ tattoo on her bum, but my heart breaks as it is filled with envy over those skillful artist hands that held Jenna’s bum in place during the tat session.

Jessica Alba

That Sanskrit character for lotus flower on Jessica Alba’s wrist miraculously caught my attention despite the wonderful view of Alba’s pearly whites.

Jessica Biel

A small dove tattoo above her bikini line is all that Jessica Biel needs to look great in a sexy outfit.

Joss Stone

That flower tat behind Joss Stone’s left ear is just plain sexy.

Lindsay Lohan

“La Bella Vita” are the words tattooed at the top of Lindsay Lohan’s right bum. This is perhaps a tribute to her single of the same title, which unfortunately didn’t become as popular as she hoped it to be. La Belle Vita means This Beautiful Life and the tat looks gorgeous on Lindsay.

Nicole Richie

That stylish tramp stamp tattoo looks great on Nicole’s thin frame.

Pamela Anderson

I think this is how the love for barbwire tattoos started. Thanks, Pam.

Paris Hilton

The infamous heiress has a cute butterfly back tattoo. And here I am thinking she had more trashy taste in tattoos. I say this is a classy choice.

Victoria ‘Posh’ Beckham

Posh rocks one star for each of her family members, including herself. That’s what Victoria said about the five posh star tattoos on her back. Sentimental Spice.

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

Now I finally get it. Supermodels are really into cute tattoos. Rebecca has a tiny tattoo design on her ankle.

Rihanna

Proof of her huge success as an R&B star, Rihanna inked several little stars over her nape.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle has purple dragonflies on her lower back. This tattoo design would definitely look great in a bikini or even in a sexy outfit such as this.

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett has a colorful sunset scene tattoo on her left inner forearm. Thanks to her pale complexion, the tat looks quite brilliant.

Sienna Miller

Sienna loves her dove and star tattoos so much that she gave them huge exposure by showing them off on an Elle Magazine cover.

Teri Polo

Teri’s musical note tat on her left boob is like ‘music to our eyes.’

Tila Tequila

If this picture isn’t screaming “Tattoos and Sex”, I don’t know what is.

Vida Guerra

Move over Kim Kardashian. Vida Guerra has the hottest pair of tattoos, hands down. She has a small rose tattoo on her ankle, a little red devil tattoo just below the bikini line.

Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine sports a flower-like Trinity tattoo near her belly button. We know how good Yasmine looks in a bikini, thanks to her role in Baywatch, and this flower tattoo would surely enhance the viewing pleasure.

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1. Jessica Alba

Surprisingly, the innocent looking Jessica Alba has a total of 4 tattoos. She has a flower and ladybird on the back of her neck, the Sanskrit character for lotus flower on her right wrist and a bow on her lower back. Her most recent piece is the ladybird on her neck, which she had done with her mother and aunt as a bonding experience.

2. Rosie O’Donnell

The large tattoo on Rosie’s right lower calf is made up of gears, screws, and flowers intertwined around a cross. She also has a red circle with a sunburst on her upper left shoulder. Who knew?

3. Mandy Moore

In January 2004, with the moral support of friend Jack Osbourne, Mandy walked into a Sunset Strip tattoo parlor and asked for a heart tattoo on her second toe. The 23-year-old singer/actress admits that this inconspicuous tattoo is the extent of her rebellion, and she doesn’t plan on having any more work done.

4. Barbie

Yes, even the beautiful Barbie has her share of ink. The 1999 Butterfly Art Barbie wore a bikini to show off her abdominal butterfly tattoo. Unfortu