Geotagging geeks are beside themselves in anticipation of the prospect of two new tattoos being added to the comely left shoulder of Angelina Jolie.
Jolie, who is heavily pregnant with twins, appeared overnight at the Cannes Film Festival wearing a green gown which showed off the four geographical map coordinate tattoos pinpointing the birth location of her four children.
The coordinates are in the degrees, minutes, seconds notation and comprise one of Jolie’s 13 known tattoos.
The actress has reportedly had a further seven tattoos removed including one which read “Billy Bob”- after her former husband, Billy Bob Thornton.
Although Jolie hasn’t confirmed it, she is widely expected to add the new coordinates.
“Usually all my tattoos came at good times,” she said in a newspaper interview in 2003. “A tattoo is something permanent when you’ve made a self-discovery, or something you’ve come to a conclusion about.”
The twins would be the fifth and sixth children for Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt. As well as Shiloh, their biological daughter who turns two later this month, they have three adopted children: Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, and Zahara, 3.
The first coordinate on her shoulder - N 11 33 0 E 104 51 00 - pinpoints a spot near a pond just outside the airport in the Cambodian capital of Phomn Penh where, supposedly, Maddox, was born.
The second coordinate - N 9 2 0 E 38 45 0 - leads to a house in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, where her daughter Zahara was born.
The third one - S 22 40 26 E 14 31 40 - zeros in on the Namibian beach resort of Swakopmund where she gave birth to Shiloh in 2006.
Finally, for now, the fourth coordinate - N 10 46 0 E 106 41 40 - links to the Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City where adopted son Pax Thien was born in 2003.
When the geo tattoo was first noticed on Jolie’s arm last year, geotaggers - people who get a kick out of plotting latitudes and longitudes - immediately punched the coordinates onto programs such as Google Earth to discover where they led.
Speaking to reporters at a Cannes news conference overnight, the 32-year-old actress also confirmed that she was thinking about giving birth in France.
“I actually haven’t completely decided, but we are certainly thinking of France,” Jolie said. “It’s a second language in our house.”
Among Jolie’s other tattoos are a quote by American playwright Tennessee Williams (”A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages)”, an Arabic phrase which means “strength of will” and a Latin proverb meaning “what nourishes me destroys me”.
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