Tattoo removed

Nicole Richie wants to remove her ''butt
crack cross'' tattoo.
The 'Fashion Star' mentor is embarrassed
by her ''tramp stamp'' - a cross tattoo
located on her lower back - and has
consulted with Los Angeles physician Dr.
Tattoff to have the inking removed.
Chronicling her visit in a new AOL web
series, '#CandidlyNicole', she said: ''I was
16 and an idiot and didn't want my
parents to see, you know? It just means a
certain thing and I don't want to be part
of that group.''
The 31-year-old star - who has two
children, Harlow, five, and three-year-old
Sparrow with Good Charlotte star Benji
Madden - has nine tattoos in total and
got her first one at the age of 14 under
less than desirable circumstances.
She explained: ''The first one I got in a
room inside of a garage. The guy actually
took out a gun and asked my friend to
hold it while he tattooed me.
''I got a Chinese love symbol - which I
don't think it [said what it was supposed
to say].''
After consulting with the doctor and
discovering her undesirable body art
would take a year of treatment to
remove, however, Nicole eventually
decided to wait till the future to have the
tattoo zapped.
She said: ''I don't want to wait two
months in between each process. It's
going to take over a year. If it was a one
time thing, I would do it. But I'm not
going back every two months. It's too
much upkeep. I'm hoping in 10 years
they'll have new technology.''