Celebrities Who Regret Tattoos: Justin Bieber, Khloe Kardashian, More

Stars — they’re just like us! And that includes getting seriously regrettable tattoos. From Justin Bieber to Khloé Kardashian, some of Hollywood’s biggest names have opened up their not-so-enviable ink.

Take Justin, for example. In 2016, the “Peaches” artist participated in GQ‘s “Tattoo Tour” YouTube series. Although Justin has several of designs all over his body, there’s one tattoo he wishes he could forget — ahem, the woman on his wrist who looks eerily similar to ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez.

“I tried to cover her face up with some shading, but people still know,” Justin, who dated the “Wolves” singer on and off from 2011 to 2018, explained at the time.

Justin Bieber, Khloe Kardashian and More Celebrities Who Regret Their Tattoos — Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock

Thankfully, the Grammy Award winner has plenty of other designs that hold a special place in his heart. On both sides of his torso, Justin has two angels executed by celebrity tattoo artist Bang Bang, whose real name is Keith Scott McCurdy.

“We added two angels, one on each side. Below each one, they’re dominating the evil. Whenever I do an epic piece, there needs to be the positive and negative,” he explained during a 2017 interview with E! News. “There needs to be a balance … visually there needs to be contrast. Below each of the angels, there is a demon that needs to be defeated. The skeleton on one side and the serpent on the other.”

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Justin’s torso piece is “symbolic of Gothic art and the struggle between the light and dark, the good and the evil, Yin and Yang,” Bang Bang added. “I wanted to make sure we had contrast in subject matter and imagery. The thing that made the most sense to me was a tattoo describing his spirituality. The animals he has, his spirit animals as well as the angels, his guardians. I was trying to make it super meaningful and not scattered.”

To date, Justin has over 60 tattoos on his body — and as far as his fans know, he only regrets one! Not bad, Bieber.

Scroll through the gallery below to learn more about celebrities who regret their tattoos.

Khloé Kardashian

In honor of her late father, Robert Kardashian, the Good American founder got a “tramp stamp” — her words, not ours — of a cross and the word “daddy” on her lower back. Khloé later got the design removed. “I should’ve listened to [Kim Kardashian] when she told me ‘You don’t put a bumper sticker on a Bentley,'” she wrote via Instagram in 2015.

Jennifer Lawrence

The Hunger Games actress caved to some peer pressure and ended up with an, er, interesting tattoo. “I was with Liam [Hemsworth]’s family and everybody was getting tattoos, and I was like, well, I’m always going to need to be hydrated, so I guess I should get H2O on my hand,” she told HitFix in 2015.

“By the way, I know that the two is high and in H2O the two is supposed to be low,” Jennifer laughed. “I should’ve Googled it before I got it tattooed on my body forever.”

Demi Lovato

In 2012, the “Heart Attack” singer got a tattoo that was supposed to be a rendering of their friend’s lips. However, it turned out looking like … something else entirely. Demi called the design a “spur of the moment, stupid decision” and renamed the lips “vagina tattoo” before getting it covered up with a black-and-white rose.

Kelly Osbourne

In October 2020, Kelly revealed she was having two of her tattoos removed — the word “lovely” from her left wrist and a colorful keyboard from her right forearm. “Who else knows how bad this hurts??? It’s 1000000000000 times worse than getting the tattoo!!!” she wrote via Instagram at the time.

Pete Davidson

The Saturday Night Live actor has hundreds of tattoos on his body — and he’s removing, well, most of them! During an interview with Seth Myers in May 2021, Pete explained his decision was about spending less time in the makeup chair on film sets.

“It takes like three hours — you have to get there three hours earlier to cover all your tattoos, because for some reason, people in movies, they don’t have them that much,” he told the talk show host. “Burning them off is worse than getting them … because not only are they, like, burning off your skin, but you’re wearing these big goggles, right? So, you can’t see anything and the doctor’s in there with you.”