Ben Affleck’s history of tattoo disasters: How his ‘mid life crisis’ phoenix ink offended his ex

Ben Affleck unveiled yet another tattoo to his vast collection on Tuesday after getting his and hers ink with his new wife Jennifer Lopez.

Affleck, 50, and Lopez, 53, were seen on Instagram celebrating their first Valentine’s Day since their wedding last summer with similar designs.

The Air star and director had a pair of overlapping arrows under his armpit area with the letters J and B between them, while Lopez was inked on her left side with an infinity sign with an arrow on it that read the words ‘Jennifer’ and ‘Ben.’

While the design is clearly sentimental, the actor has a history of making rather questionable choices when it comes to body art.

His most controversial tattoo is the enormous phoenix that spans his whole back. After he was first pictured with the ink in 2015, he claimed it was ‘fake’ for a movie role.

The latest: Ben Affleck, 50, added the latest tattoo to his person Tuesday as he and his wife Jennifer Lopez got tattoos that coordinate with one another. Pictured 2018 in Honolulu

The tattoo of the phoenix appeared to rankle his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, who told Vanity Fair in February 2016 of the ink, ‘You know what we would say in my hometown about that? “Bless his heart.” 

Garner added, ‘A phoenix rising from the ashes. Am I the ashes in this scenario? I take umbrage. I refuse to be the ashes.’

Lopez was also critical of the ink in a February 2016 appearance on Watch What Happens Live, as she declared the ink to be ‘awful.’

She added at the time, ‘I would tell him that! Like, what are you doing? It has too many colors. His tattoos always had too many colors. 

‘They shouldn’t be so colorful, you know what I mean? They should be cooler.’

Affleck in 2019 said on Ellen that the tattoo had a ‘meaningful’ message behind it.

‘It represents something really important to me … I like it,’ Affleck said. ‘It’s not something that I sort of kept private.’

Affleck also has a tattoo of a dolphin on his lower back that Page Six dubbed his ‘dolphin tramp stamp’ in November of 2011.

Photographers caught a glimpse of the dolphin when Affleck was helping his daughter get out of a vehicle, the outlet reported, adding that it was put there to cover up a previous tattoo of a high school girlfriend’s name.

Affleck has an enormous tattoo of a phoenix on his back, which was initially seen in 2015 prior to photographers getting full snaps of it in 2018 

The ink was slammed by both his present and ex-wife in 2016, as Jennifer Lopez called it ‘awful’ while Jennifer Garner didn’t like the idea that she was the ashes his phoenix was rising from

Affleck and Lopez, 53, were seen on Instagram celebrating their first Valentine’s Day since their wedding last summer with matching ink. 

The Air star and director had a pair of overlapping arrows under his armpit area with the letters J and B between them 

Lopez was inked on her left side with an infinity sign with an arrow on it that read the words ‘Jennifer’ and ‘Ben’ 

Affleck also has a tattoo of a dolphin on his lower back that Page Six dubbed his ‘dolphin tramp stamp’ in November of 2011 

The dolphin was put there to cover up a previous tattoo of a high school girlfriend’s name