Kevin Durant's Back Tattoo Misspelling And Margaret Cho's Korean Spa Tattoo Trouble

Celebs are getting in trouble for their tattoos lately. Both basketball player Keven Durant and comedian Margaret Cho have caught flack for their tattoos for different reasons.

In Kevin Durant's case, the mess was his own fault - or maybe his tattoo artist's. Durant posted a pic of his back tattoo to Instagram and it was misspelled. The word "mature" was spelled wrong.

The quotation, taken from James1:2-4, is supposed to read:

"Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way."

Aaaaand the word "mature" was spelled wrong. Which seems, well, kinda immature.

UPDATE, though: Durant got his tattoo fixed ASAP. He Instagrammed a new pic, saying "I got mature spelled the right way lol."

Margaret Cho, who actually has her tattoos spelled right the first time, got in trouble for her own ink. Back in March, she was at a Korean spa and her tattoos got her, well, out of hot water, rather than into the hot water she wanted to be in.

Cho was at a Korean bath when the spa manager asked her to cover up. She said the manager "sat me down on the wet bench and tried to tell me, very apologetically that I was making the women there upset with my heavily tattooed body."

"She asked if I could please wear something, anything- a towel or something- and cover myself so that I wouldn't frighten anyone with my body."

And, as she wrote in a Jezebel piece about the experience, covering up in Korean spas just isn't normal.

"Korean spas are, uh - well, clothing optional is not the right thing to call them. It's more clothing non-optional, in that everyone is naked."

"Even after donning a robe, I was still being given heavy duty Korean woman stinkeye", Cho wrote.

Cho shot back at the flack she got, saying "I don't feel shame that my skin is decorated. My tattoos are my glory. I am happy in my skin and I am not sure what to say when others are not happy with my skin."

"None of our bodies are 'perfect'. We live in them. They aren't supposed to be 'perfect'... I deserve to be naked if I want to." Cho wrote.

Margaret now has incorporated the Korean bath incident into her routine when she performs comedy shows, telling a story about it last week.

Well, her tattoos are beautiful - and correctly spelled. They're full of Asian imagery, if not specifically Korean, like a Hindu god's head and a phoenix. The experience goes to show that tattoos can't make you mature and that a giant Asian phoenix doesn't make you friends with your own fellow Asians.

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