Chris Hemsworth reveals the special meaning behind tattoo

Chris Hemsworth opened up about his array of tattoos on Monday, revealing that several of the designs were dedicated to his 13-year-old daughter, India.

The father of three explained on the SmartLess podcast that he had a Dr Seuss tattoo inked in India’s honor, and nearly lasered it off until she stepped in.

“My Dr Seuss tattoo…I used to read that book to her a lot, and my mom read it to me – Oh, the Places You’ll Go – and she just would draw that little character and loved it,” he shared. “And so I got that tattoo.”

“A few years later, I was like, I’m kinda sick of it,” he continued. “So I started getting it taken off, I did like one laser session, and then she came home one day, and she goes, ‘It’s rubbing off. What happened to it? It’s rubbing off.'”

“She goes, ‘No. I love it.’ So, it’s now kind of half faded, you know, but it’s still there.” He then recounted how India created her own tattoo designs, which Chris had inked on him the very same night.

“I was sitting with a tattoo artist one night, and it was, like, 10:00, and he’s designing all these different things and all this sort of sacred geometry and trippy-looking stuff. And my daughter walked out and goes, ‘Dad, I can’t sleep. You’re making too much noise.’ I’m like, ‘Sorry. Sorry,'” he said. “And she sits down and starts squiggling and drew the three little images here.”

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 “[My tattoo artist] looked at me and goes, ‘I think [her drawings are] way cooler than anything we’re designing, and so I took a photo of that, and that’s that.”

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Chris has several tattoos that hold different meanings for him, including a matching tattoo of the Avengers logo with his Marvel castmates, and a matching forearm tattoo with his wife that spells out “C E I T S”, for each member of their family. Chris and his actress wife, Elsa Pataky, are parents to India and twin boys, Tristan and Sasha.

Chris and Elsa opted to move from Los Angeles to his home country of Australia after becoming parents, as they preferred the peace and privacy of farm living in the seaside town of Byron Bay.

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“It was right around the time my boys were born, and it was just, we kind of were set up in LA and not enjoying it, you know? Like nothing was shooting there. We were filming kind of everywhere else,” the Thor star explained on SmartLess.

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“And then…you’d come home and paparazzi and all the sort of the trappings of, you know, living in that space,” he said, before adding that coming home to Australia was a restorative experience.

“You know, when you come back from work, you wanna go on a holiday? Like coming home for me is – it feels like a holiday. We have a big farm, and horses and motorbikes and surf.”