{"id":939686,"date":"2026-10-20T05:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939686\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:50:16","slug":"joe-manganiello-reveals-insane-dragon-tattoo-covering-surgery-scars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939686\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Manganiello Reveals Insane Dragon Tattoo Covering Surgery Scars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261019_a569b385ceeb4f8b907961efcf13c052\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1c8c8c24-08cd-4fcd-b859-0ce260edc04b\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a569b385ceeb4f8b907961efcf13c052_md.jpg\" alt=\"joe Manganiello new tattoo getty insta 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/joe-manganiello\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Manganiello<\/a> is the man with the dragon tattoo &#8230; as in, he got a gigantic dragon tattoo stretching from his knee to his belly button to cover his scars from his mysterious health battle.<\/p>\n<p>The actor showed off the massive ink on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DesHJ3DIMZn\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram <\/a>Monday while promoting his memoir, &#8220;Bloodlines,&#8221; writing &#8230; &#8220;In chapter four, I related my struggle with the illness to my body sending out knights to fight a (western) dragon that didn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261019_e6377d07d3bd4961b1222ad1fa2198b5\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1c8c8c24-08cd-4fcd-b859-0ce260edc04b\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/e6377d07d3bd4961b1222ad1fa2198b5_md.jpg\" alt=\"joe Manganiello new tattoo insta 7\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe says the soldiers in the metaphor would &#8220;punch holes throughout my body&#8221; when they &#8220;couldn&#8217;t find an enemy&#8221; &#8230; describing the nearly-fatal ailment he battled for years.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20261019_19eae0967f864d57ad7c9bef623df921\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1c8c8c24-08cd-4fcd-b859-0ce260edc04b\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/19eae0967f864d57ad7c9bef623df921_md.jpg\" alt=\"joe Manganiello new tattoo insta 5\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>He says the three-foot dragon covering his surgery scars was &#8220;my effort to take back what little agency I felt that I had, and to signal to my body to stop attacking the dragon\u2026 because the (eastern) dragon was me\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joe had previously shared some gnarly photos of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/10\/15\/joe-manganiello-hospital-pictures\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">battle scars<\/a> after surgery &#8230; where you can see the literal hole in his stomach after doctors removed his ostomy bag and reconnected his digestive tract.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Magic Mike&#8221; star has said that he&#8217;s now symptom-free and off his meds after spending 7 years fighting his mystery illness.<\/p>\n<p>No word how long Joe spent in the tattoo parlor.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Manganiello is the man with the dragon tattoo &#8230; as in, he got a gigantic dragon tattoo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-939686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}