The photographer, 36, was once known as the most tattooed man in Brazil, having got his first inking at age 13 "It hurts a lot, no matter how much anesthesia they use, the pain is horrible," Souza ...

He was once known as Brazil's most tattooed man before he started removing 170 tattoos -- due to his newfound faith and difficult journey to find a job to help his mother. A man known for having the ...

Leandro de Souza was once known as Brazil’s most tattooed man. But then everything changed — and at 36, he made the shocking decision to erase every trace of ink from his body. It’s no exaggeration to ...

What began as a teenage decision at just 13 years old eventually turned Leandro de Souza into a national record-holder. In ...

From full sleeve to clean slate: Brazil’s onetime most-tattooed man is erasing his past, one laser pulse at a time. Leandro de Souza, a 36-year-old photographer from Bagé in Brazil’s southernmost ...

Maybe it's the butterfly tattoo you got in college, or the name of a former lover. The truth is, many of us have gotten a tattoo that we eventually came to regret. Like our personality or our fashion ...

The story of how a boy from Providence, Rhode Island, became "the most wonderful tattooed man ever known in the civilized world" involves menacing sailors and voyages across the sea, and was recently ...

Leandro de Souza was once known as “Brazil’s most tattooed man” after getting over 170 inkings Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has previously appeared in The U.S.