Celebs With Hidden Tattoos

Celebrities having tattoos is nothing new. "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor Johnny Depp has over 30 tattoos inked across his body, while Dwayne Johnson shows off his tribal arm and chest tattoos in almost all of his movies. In 2021, The Rock added to his collection, getting a bull inked on his right bicep. He shared the process on Instagram, writing that the design took almost 30 hours of tattooing and countless hours of collaboration with the artist Yomico Moreno beforehand. "We took months to fine tune the story and information this tattoo has to tell," the actor explained, noting that he wanted to make sure he was adding to the art already on his body.

Many other stars have smaller designs, or single tattoos — like Emma Stone, who has a matching bird tattoo on her wrist with her mom — which are still pretty visible. However, there are some celebs who like to keep their ink private, rarely ever showing it off. So, you might not know that the latest live-action "Spider-Man" actor Tom Holland has a permanent tribute to his superhero character, or that former Disney Channel star Hilary Duff is hiding more ink than you'd have guessed. Keep reading to find out which celebs have hidden tattoos.

Like Tom Holland, Scarlett Johansson also has a tattoo to honor her MCU role — and she's not the only one. According to Robert Downey Jr., the "Black Widow" star was the one responsible for convincing five out of the six original "Avengers" actors to get inked. "The only person who doesn't have it is Mark Ruffalo because he's lame, basically," Johansson joked several years later on "Late Night with Seth Meyers." Although Ruffalo opted out, his place was taken by their tattoo artist Josh Lord, with the actors all contributing to it. They all have the Avengers-themed tattoo on the inside of their upper right arms.

This isn't Johansson's only hidden tattoo, either. She has a huge back tattoo which is rarely visible. However, she did show it off at the premiere of "Avengers: Endgame" in 2019 (pictured above). She was wearing a backless Versace gown which framed the large lamb and rose design perfectly. Johansson also received this ink from Lord. Although she hasn't shared the meaning of it, it's been speculated that it's a special tribute to her daughter, Rose Dorothy Dauriac. And adding to the "Marriage Story" star's collection of rarely seen torso tattoos is her flying owl, which is above her ribcage on the right of her body.

Noah Centineo quickly achieved international recognition after he took on the role of Peter Kavinsky in Netflix's "To All the Boys" film trilogy. From that moment on, the teen heartthrob's sense of style became synonymous with his dark brown curls. But, as he got older, Centineo wanted to change his look, and in 2019 he finally did it by cutting off his hair. He told Harper's Bazaar that he'd waited until he was secure enough in his acting abilities that it wouldn't affect him getting roles.

However, the haircut did affect how he was treated. "Some people in my life think that I've kind of shifted into a more masculine brooding type," Centineo explained. "The buzz cut guy with scars on his face is a little different than, like, long-hair cute boy," he added. However, the actor seemingly embraced his transformation, taking the buzz cut even further in 2022, when he shaved the sides of his hair and revealed a tattoo underneath. Centineo has a bear and two cubs inked on his skull above his left ear. The actor hasn't responded to fans' comments about his tattoo or explained the meaning behind it, but the ink certainly gives "The Recruit" star a new look that's a far cry from his "To All the Boys" days.

When you think of celebrities with multiple tattoos, Jessica Alba might not be the first name to cross your mind. But the "L.A.'s Finest" star has gotten plenty of ink over the years. Alba admitted to Refinery29 that she specifically has a couple of tattoos from when she was a teenager that she has since come to regret as an adult. One is the bow on her lower back, which she calls a "tramp stamp," and the other is the small bunch of flowers on the back of her neck (pictured above). "I got it when I was, like, 17 and I'm so irritated that I got it. I got it lasered many times, and it's not coming out," she explained.

However, the star does have another collection of hidden tattoos she doesn't regret. She got small Gemini, Leo, and Capricorn constellations inked along her left forearm as a tribute to her three children — Honor, Haven, and Hayes — who she shares with her husband Cash Warren. "I really wanted to think about what would be meaningful over time, because when you get something when you're 17 and now you're 38, you're like, 'Hmm, don't know if that's too meaningful.' But for that one, the kids are forever."

Like many celebs — including Zac Efron, who has "YOLO" printed on his hand — Jennifer Lawrence has a tattoo on her hand. However, unlike Efron, Lawrence's ink is tiny and barely visible, so much so that you might not even know she has it. "I call this tattoo a watered down rebellion because it's not like a real tattoo. It's just like, I was with Liam's [Hemsworth] 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 just get an H2O on my hand,'" the "Hunger Games" star explained to HitFix.

The tattoo is in a very light ink, almost looking like a scar, so that it blends in with her skin. However, Lawrence admitted that she made a mistake with the placement of the letters, as the "2" in "H2O" should be lower than the other letters, but her version has it above. "I should've Googled it before I got it tattooed on my body forever," she said. Nevertheless, the tattoo probably does its job of reminding the actor to drink more water, and it's made for funny interview material!

Model-turned-actor Cara Delevingne has a lot of tattoos, from the abstract flowers on her skull only visible when her head is shaved, to her mom's name Pandora, which she has tattooed on her upper left arm. Delevingne has made an effort to show off each of her tattoos at one time or another, but there's one that is mostly only found in the depths of "The Only Murders in the Building" star's Instagram feed — her "BACON" tattoo.

Delevingne has previously shown off her love of all things bacon — and even shared a video of herself devouring a bacon bun. She loves bacon so much that in 2014, she got the word tattooed on the sole of her foot.

However, according to the "Carnival Row" star, the tattoo doesn't just relate to food. When asked whether it was actually a tribute to Francis Bacon on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," she said, "Anything bacon is good, am I right?" (via Marie Claire). "The 'dot, dot, dot' — it's an open-ended statement, it's not a question. It's just however you want to take it," Delevingne added.

While enjoying the waves at a beach in Hawaii in 2018, Ben Affleck gave the paparazzi an eyeful of more than they were expecting. Photos taken on the beach revealed the "Justice League" actor's giant phoenix rising back tattoo. Up until that point, Affleck had mostly kept the tattoo under wraps, but once the internet caught wind of it, it stirred up quite a bit of controversy. At first, Affleck tried to deny it was real. "[It's] fake for a movie," Affleck told extra in 2016, before the full picture had emerged. "I actually do have a number of tattoos, but I try to have them in places where you don't have to do a lot of cover up they get sort of addictive, tattoos, after a while."

While the other tattoos the "Pearl Harbor" alum was referring to include his multiple arm tattoos and a dolphin on his right hip which covers up the name of his high school girlfriend, and his arm tattoos — it appears his phoenix rising tattoo was actually real all along. He admitted he lied because he felt the paparazzi had invaded his privacy, and cleared up any more confusion on "The Ellen Show" in 2019 where he also told the world how proud he is of his colorful ink. "It's meaningful to me. I like it. It's something that I sort of kept private ... I love my tattoo. I'm very happy with it. Luckily, I'm the one who has it," he said.

If we're talking about celebs with hidden tattoos, singer Cheryl Tweedy — aka Cheryl — might just take the cake. The mom of one one has a very large, private tattoo that has never publicly been seen in its entirety. But Tweedy did post a picture of the huge red, black, and green rose tattoo which spans from her lower back to her butt and upper thighs on Instagram (via The Sun).

Because of its intimate placement, this tattoo is rarely seen at all. However, the former "Girls Aloud" singer did give fans another tease of her colorful ink while wearing a backless dress (pictured above). In it, the top of her intricate rose design was on view.

The expansive ink actually covers up two of Cheryl's older tattoos — a butterfly and barbed wire design she had on her lower back, and a colorful Tweety Pie bird, which was on her right butt cheek. The new ink cost the former "X-Factor" judge almost £4,000 ($5,000 USD), according to The Sun.

Like Scarlett Johansson, "Captain America" actor Chris Evans has the "Avengers" tattoo on his arm. But that is nowhere near all the ink that the superhero star has. Evans has a couple others on his arms, like the Taurus tattoo on his left shoulder, but the rest are hidden on his torso. These are rarely visible, except when they are poking out of the collar of his shirt in interviews or at press events. And his fans got a proper glimpse of them when he was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2022.

At the top of his chest, Evans has an eagle tattoo and an Eckhart Tolle quote about being centered in the present. And below that is his most special tattoo, which he got for his beloved dog Dodger, who he rescued in 2017. "I'll never regret that tattoo. I've regretted a few in my life, but not that one," he said happily on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

But there's a reason Evans' tattoos are all confined to his torso. "I really like tattoos, but the problem is, when you wear a short-sleeve shirt in a movie, that's an extra hour in the makeup chair. It's just not worth it. I'm all for tattoos, but just somewhere they can be hidden," the "Ghosted" star explained to The Hot Hits.

Mandy Moore started out as a singer-songwriter, releasing her first album in 1999, before also transitioning to acting two years later. Moore has worked steadily in both branches of the entertainment industry for decades, though latterly favored acting while starring in "This Is Us" from 2016 to 2022. But, no matter where she goes in her career, she always has a permanent reminder of her early music career inked on her body. In 2015, Moore revealed that she and her bandmates got a silly tattoo of a single sperm back in 2007. And for the sake of continuity on screen, she shared on Instagram that her stunt double had to have it drawn on.

Moore later explained the full story behind the tattoo, which is on the inside of her left foot, on "Late Night With Seth Meyers." It stemmed from all the guys in her band sharing one shower while on tour (via HuffPost). "Their one rule was nobody was allowed to ... masturbate in the shower. And it became this big joke because one of my band members was like, 'I don't want babies on my feet.'" "Babies on My Feet" soon became a song, and it eventually inspired the tattoo too. "To commemorate the tour, we all got babies on our feet," she added.

A few years later, Moore balanced out her foot tattoo by getting another one on the outside of her right foot. In 2018, she shared that she'd had a mountain scape line drawing to commemorate her hike up Mount Kilimanjaro that year.

Last but by no means least, we have to talk about Kendall Jenner's lip tattoo. Or should we say inner lip tattoo, since it's actually on the flesh inside her mouth? The tattoo is only visible when she sticks her lip out far enough for it to be seen. When asked by Ellen DeGeneres why she chose that particular placement, she admitted: "I was drunk. I was not thinking clearly," per "The Ellen Show." But the supermodel's drunk decision did come with one benefit — the tattoo didn't hurt at all. She can honestly say that this was a spontaneous decision, and as for why she chose to have the word "Meow" forever inked inside her lip, she said: "It was literally the first thing that came to my mind."

Jenner also admitted to the host that this wasn't her first tattoo. She has two tiny finger tattoos on her right hand that you can't see. The first one she ever got was a white dot because she just wanted to test the waters before she went back to get a white heart inked on another finger.