Angelina Jolie’ tatoo

Surely the most popular tattooed female celebrity in the world today has to be Angelina Jolie. This gifted actress, who is blessed with stunning good looks, has at the very least, a dozen tattoos, and shows no signs of slowing down her collecting. Her tattoos are a reflection of her personality, exotic and with more than just a hint of dangerous sensuality. This is a babe with an edge and a true ink aficionado. A woman who professes she likes to play with knives in bed and had the name of the man she loved tattooed on her. And when he exits stage left, she doesn’t hesitate to have it lasered off just as quickly.

“I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me.”

Jolie has hundreds of web sites dedicated to her worship and her popularity shows no signs of waning as she continues to put her own personal spin on the genre of female action-stars.

The story of the tattoos that are draped on the body of box office hitmaker and baby mama Angelina Jolie are a story in themselves, but this week one artist is spilling on a session with Jolie that was a bit girly. It doesn’t include Brad Pitt but there is a bit on Angie’s former husband Billy Bob Thornton and Jolie’s tan lines.

According to a Life & Style Weekly report, “famed celebrity tattoo artist Friday Jones – who once gave Angelina Jolie a tat in a very private place – is opening Friday Jones Fifth Avenue at Senses NY Salon & Spa on June 16.”

She spoke with the magazine. “I always thought we could have a more serene, spiritually driven approach to tattooing,” Friday, who notes that Angelina was one of her inspirations for the posh-parlor concept, tells Life & Style. “I met Angie right around 2000. She was this edgy, avant-garde girl. She would pull up to the house and say, ‘I’m jonesing for a tattoo – you have to tattoo me.’ And we’re up in the house in the Hollywood Hills, she has her little glass of wine, it’s very calm. It’s a good atmosphere to stretch out and feel like girls.”

But the item notes when Angelina, 34, asked Friday to mark her with the name of then-lover Billy Bob Thornton, Friday did have some reservations, she admits. “I was like, ‘I’m not going to put that man’s name on you,’” she says. “Eventually, after about two or three weeks of her coming over every day, I broke down. We put his name very delicately on her bikini line.”

Angelina Jolie had the cross tattoo done the day before she married Johnny Lee Miller in 1995. In her own words: “It was all symbolic, and it was a good thing, nothing dark.”

About Angelina Jolie

Date of Birth: June 4, 1975

Height: 1.73 m

Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles. Her father is Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight. She began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute at the age of 11. When she was 16, Jolie worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles. Then she studied at L.A.’s MET Theatre Company wishing to get even closer to pursuing an acting career.

Jolie took a lead role in “Hackers” (1995), where she met her future husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller, but their relationship lasted less than one year.

She won a Golden Globe and an Emmy nomination by her performance in “George Wallace.” Her acclaim increased further when she played the lead role in the HBO production “Gia” (1998) (TV).

On the big screen, Jolie was well-received by audiences for her role in 1998’s “Playing By Heart.”

Her supporting role in 1999’s “Girl, Interrupted” gained her a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

In 2000, Jolie eloped with her “Pushing Tin” costar Billy Bob Thornton, but after they adopted a Cambodian boy named Maddox Chivan Thornton Jolie in 2002, their marriage came to an end.

In 2001, she was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

In 2004, Jolie began filming “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” with Brad Pitt. The film became a major box office success. Rumors also spread that Pitt and Jolie had an affair while filming “Smith.”

On July 6, 2005, she adopted her second child, a six-month-old girl named Zahara Marley, from Ethiopia.

Jolie and Pitt announced in early 2006 that they would have a child together, and Jolie gave birth to daughter “Shiloh” that May.

In March 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam. Jolie named him Pax, which was suggested by her mother before she passed away.