{"id":387315,"date":"2026-04-19T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387315\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:55:09","slug":"pete-davidsons-incredible-transformation-pictured-as-actor-spends-200000-on-tattoo-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387315\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson’s incredible transformation pictured as actor spends $200,000 on tattoo removal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete Davidson once boasted one of the most impressive tattoo collections in the world but the celebrity comedian decided to make some serious changes.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old, who recently became a father for the first time, has cut a controversial figure at times, certainly when he recently admitted that he still watches porn<\/a> after welcoming his first daughter with Elsie Hewitt last year.<\/p>\n

Davidson has long been identifiable because of his ink, covering his body in over 200 different images and faces, some of which included his illustrious list of ex-girlfriends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After dating the likes of Ariana Grande and Kim Kardashian<\/a>, both of whom have been particularly complimentary about his appendage<\/a>, Davidson recently settled down with Hewitt and now seems to be on a mission to clean up his act.<\/p>\n

It was after the actor attended rehab that he decided it was time to remove some of his tattoos<\/a>, although it’s proving to be an arduous and expensive process, as he admitted last year that some of the coloured tattoos in particular can take years to properly remove.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, he said: “Well I made a lot of those decisions when, you know, before rehab. So I got the dumbest tattoos.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t realise it would take – like, when I’m 40, it’ll all be gone, like the chest and the back.<\/p>\n

“It’s at least seven visits,’ Davidson added in regards to removing just one tattoo. “And if it’s black and white, it’s a little easier. But if it’s a colour tattoo, it takes forever.”<\/p>\n

\"HisHis arm tattoos are pretty much gone now (Greg Doherty\/Getty Images for Amazon MGM Studios)<\/p>\n

His latest public appearance certainly suggests that he’s making some impressive progress, as he showed off his almost completely bare arms at CinemaCon in Las Vegas earlier this week.<\/p>\n

It seems as if the impact on his acting career also played a part in his decision to get them removed, something he’s been hard at work for the past six years.<\/p>\n

Back in 2021, he told Seth Myers: \u201cFor some reason, people in movies, they don\u2019t have them that much,\u201d before suggesting that it can take as long as three hours to cover them up in the makeup chair.<\/p>\n

\"DavidsonDavidson became a father for the first time in December (Instagram)<\/p>\n

However, it’s not been an easy journey for Davidson, who previously suggested that it’s been ‘terrible’, and that while he wants a clean slate, he might keep two or three of his favourites.<\/p>\n

He confessed: \u201cThey burn off your skin and then you\u2019ve got to do it 10 more times. I think if you can invest in any business, I think you should invest in the tattoo removal business.<\/p>\n

“They just put me to sleep which is kind of nice but if it\u2019s just the arm, I try to listen to stuff or talk to the nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson once boasted one of the most impressive tattoo collections in the world but the celebrity comedian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[12342,430,3623,156,17364,111,139,69,22919],"class_list":["post-387315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ariana-grande","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pete-davidson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}