Angelina Jolie shares a bond like no other with her children, and, as it turns out, they have immortalized it with some ink on their skin.
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Speaking to CR Fashion Book, Angelina Jolie was asked about her most special tattoo, and the star took the chance to reveal that she and her daughter Vivienne, 16, recently got matching ink. Jolie admitted the duo each got the phrase “Stay Gold” tattooed to pay homage to their time together working on Broadway’s The Outsiders. “It means so much to us separately and together,” Jolie shared of the ink.
Jolie also revealed that the “Stay Gold” tattoos are not the only ones she shares with her children. “There is also a bird that I share with some of my children that is personal to us,” she said. Jolie actually debuted her bird tattoo, which was designed by artist Mark Mahoney and placed on her chest, earlier this year, taking the ink for a spin on the red carpet at the Tony’s, where she was accompanied by Vivienne.
Angelina Jolie and her swallow tattoo at the 77th Annual Tony Awards at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on June 16, 2024 in New York City. Photo: Getty
While Jolie didn’t share where her matching tattoo with Vivienne is, eagle-eyed fans spotted the design on her forearm back in April, coinciding with the opening of The Outsiders. “Stay Gold” is a prominent phrase in S.E. Hinton’s 1967 book of the same name, which inspired the play, and the Broadway adaptation also features a song titled “Stay Gold.” It’s unclear where Vivienne got hers.
Closeup of Angelina Jolie’s “Stay Gold” tattoo on her arm. Photo: Getty
Earlier this year, Jolie opened up about her involvement in The Outsiders as a producer, admitting she took on the project as a chance to bond with her daughter Vivienne, who worked as a volunteer on the Broadway production prior to Jolie taking on her producer role.
Vivienne Jolie, Justin Levine, and Angelina Jolie attend the opening night of The Outsiders at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on April 11, 2024 in New York City. Photo: Getty
“My daughter Viv loves theater,” Jolie told Deadline. “She appreciates all theater but she certainly knows what she feels close to and what she responds to. She went to see The Outsiders at La Jolla about five times and was telling me about it, and I had read the book, and I’d seen the film years ago.”
“Really, as a mother, as a person, I was watching it, but I was really watching the effect it was having on my young daughter and what she was telling me about herself, and I was learning what about it was important to her and why it connected so deeply to her,” Jolie added. “It was a very different experience of understanding, of how this is having a significant effect on her as a young person right now, and she’s communicating something to me, and that is the power of this material, which was in really good shape even by then.”
Originally published in Teenvogue.com
