Shortly after his divorce from Jennifer Garner last summer, Ben Affleck was spotted with what looked like some serious ink on his back, although it was hard to tell as paparazzi shots only caught the bottom half of the tat. A few months later, while on the set of "Live By Night," the actor was photographed walking around set with a hospital gown on, fully exposing the giant and colorful Phoenix tattoo.
When Affleck's ex-financé Jennifer Lopez appeared on "Watch What Happens Live" on Monday night, host Andy Cohen used the opportunity to play a game and find out what she really thought of his massive tattoo.
"It's awful!" the 46-year-old actress and singer said of the ink during the "Plead the Fifth" segment. "It has too many colors. His tattoos always had too many colors. They shouldn't be so colorful. They should be, like, cooler, I don't know."
Affleck, 43, has a few other tattoos that have been seen by the public, including a dolphin on his right hip, which covers up the name of his high school sweetheart, a barbed wire on his bicep, a large fish with a skull and crossbones on his right arm and unknown initials on his shoulder.
Lopez and Affleck were one of Hollywood's hottest couples when they began dating back in 2002 after meeting on the set of "Gigi," and were known by most as super couple "Bennifer." They got engaged that same year and were supposed to get married in November 2003, but put the wedding on hold and eventually broke up for good in 2004.
Affleck then married Garner the following year, but they ended their ten-year marriage last June. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Garner spoke out for the first time since the highly publicized breakup and also shared her thoughts on her ex's tattoo. Many believe the ink was the result of a mid-life crisis following the divorce, but Garner refuses to be responsible for it.
"You know what we would say in my hometown about that? 'Bless his heart.' A phoenix rising from the ashes. Am I the ashes in this scenario?" she asked. "I take umbrage. I refuse to be the ashes."
