Nicole Richie wants to remove a tattoo on her lower back, which she has dubbed a ''butt crack cross''.
The 'Fashion Star' mentor is embarrassed by her ''tramp stamp'' - a cross tattoo located on her lower back - and has consulted with Los Angeles physician Dr. Tattoff to have the inking removed. Chronicling her visit in a new AOL web series, '#CandidlyNicole', she said: ''I was 16 and an idiot and didn't want my parents to see, you know?
It just means a certain thing and I don't want to be part of that group.'' The 31-year-old star - who has two children, Harlow, five, and three-year-old Sparrow with Good Charlotte star Benji Madden - has nine tattoos in total and got her first one at the age of 14 under less than desirable circumstances.
She explained: ''The first one I got in a room inside of a garage. The guy actually took out a gun and asked my friend to hold it while he tattooed me. ''I got a Chinese love symbol - which I don't think it [said what it was supposed to say].'' After consulting with the doctor and discovering her undesirable body art would take a year of treatment to remove, however, Nicole eventually decided to wait till the future to have the tattoo zapped.
She said: ''I don't want to wait two months in between each process. It's going to take over a year. If it was a one time thing, I would do it. But I'm not going back every two months. It's too much upkeep. I'm hoping in 10 years they'll have new technology.''
Nicole Richie wants 'tramp stamp' tattoo removed
Nicole Richie wants to remove a tattoo on her lower back, which she has dubbed a ''butt crack cross''.
The 'Fashion Star' mentor is embarrassed by her ''tramp stamp'' - a cross tattoo located on her lower back - and has consulted with Los Angeles physician Dr. Tattoff to have the inking removed. Chronicling her visit in a new AOL web series, '#CandidlyNicole', she said: ''I was 16 and an idiot and didn't want my parents to see, you know?
It just means a certain thing and I don't want to be part of that group.'' The 31-year-old star - who has two children, Harlow, five, and three-year-old Sparrow with Good Charlotte star Benji Madden - has nine tattoos in total and got her first one at the age of 14 under less than desirable circumstances.
She explained: ''The first one I got in a room inside of a garage. The guy actually took out a gun and asked my friend to hold it while he tattooed me. ''I got a Chinese love symbol - which I don't think it [said what it was supposed to say].'' After consulting with the doctor and discovering her undesirable body art would take a year of treatment to remove, however, Nicole eventually decided to wait till the future to have the tattoo zapped.
She said: ''I don't want to wait two months in between each process. It's going to take over a year. If it was a one time thing, I would do it. But I'm not going back every two months. It's too much upkeep. I'm hoping in 10 years they'll have new technology.''
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