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Ben Affleck flaunts massive back tattoo he once said was fake

Press Trust of India  |  Los Angeles 

Hollywood star Ben Affleck's much talked about pheonix is permanent.

The actor, who in 2016 said that the huge ink was fake, was seen flaunting it while training alongside his "Triple Frontier" co-stars, Charlie Hunnam, and Oscar Isaac, in Hawaii, reported

The massive tattoo, featuring a colourful phoenix spreading its wings, was first seen in December 2015, when Affleck was working on the set of "Live by Night".

reportedly got the tattoo, which symbolises rebirth, after then-wife filed for divorce after 10 years of marriage. The pair share children Violet, 12, Seraphina, nine, and Samuel, six.

Affleck, 45, had denied that it was a permanent ink, explaining the of the mythological creature was actually for a movie.

"I actually do have a number of tattoos but I try to have them in places where you don't have to do a lot of cover up," he told at that time.

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First Published: Mon, March 19 2018. 15:35 IST
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