Miley Cyrus's Tattoos Are a Collection of Meaningful Moments

In 2020, Cyrus got a cutout tattoo inspired by "Dance Me to the End of Love," a book that visualizes Leonard Cohen's song of the same name with illustrations by artist Henry Matisse.

In 2019, Cyrus got a tattoo of the word "Freedom" in cursive on her right hand. Some of Cyrus's fans have speculated that the tattoo was in response to the end of her marriage to Liam Hemsworth, however she also has the lyric "Don't f*ck with my freedom" throughout her song "Mother's Daughter."

In December 2019, Cyrus got a tattoo on her left shoulder that reads, "I'm proud of you, Yoko." According to the caption accompanying the photo her tattoo artist, Daniel Winter, posted of it on Instagram, the tattoo is actually a copy of a handwritten note that Yoko Ono once wrote Cyrus.

Days after getting her rose tattoo, the singer added another piece to her collection. She got the number "'92" etched on the back of her neck as a nod to her birth year, 1992.

Shortly after her divorce from Liam Hemsworth, Cyrus debuted a rose tattoo on the back of her left arm via Instagram. She shared a black-and-white video of the rose with the caption, "When asked if what you say and do is done with purest intentions and only LOVE inside the heart?"

Cyrus later shared a second video with the caption, "Every. Rose. Has. Its. Thorn."

After Floyd's passing in 2014, the singer got a tattoo of him inside a bubble alongside the words, "With a little help from my fwends."

On her right forearm sits a portrait of Cyrus's pit bull, Mary Jane.

Right above her Pablow tattoo sits a portrait of her beloved Shetland sheepdog, Emu, whom she adopted two months after the unexpected passing of her Alaskan klee kai, Floyd.

Cyrus has more than one tattoo dedicated to her pets. After writing a song about her blowfish, Pablow, following its death in 2015, she went to famed celebrity tattoo artist Dr. Woo to get a piece of ink in its memory.

Cyrus also has an anchor tattoo on her right wrist that she got done in Brazil in May 2011 by the artist Fabio Satori.

Back in 2012, Cyrus and her then-boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth, got coordinating tattoos on their left arms of quotes from Theodore Roosevelt.

The singer had hers done in July of that year and chose an excerpt from the former president's legendary "Citizenship in a Republic" speech: "So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

A few months later, Hemsworth picked a line from the same speech that reads, "If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly," which many assume is missing a "he." Oops.

In February 2011 at the age of 18, the singer got the image of a dream catcher tattooed on the right side of her torso, which represents her four brothers and sisters.

In addition to an animal tooth, roman numerals, an anatomically correct heart, and the words "I'm in your corner" with Johnny Cash's signature, Cyrus's right arm is home to a portrait of her grandmother.

Cyrus's right hand has nine tiny tattoos total. That includes the heart on her pinky finger, which is a matching tattoo that she got with her mom, Tish Cyrus.

The singer has a tattoo of the word "LOVE" on the inside of her right ear, which she got in 2010.

In 2014, Cyrus and her best friend, Cheyne Thomas, gave each other matching smiley-face tattoos.

Cyrus's first tattoo ever was the phrase "just breathe" on her rib cage in December 2009, which was reportedly done as a tribute to her close friend Vanessa, who died of cystic fibrosis, and both of her grandfathers, who died of lung cancer.

The "just breathe" tattoo is joined by a moving image dedicated to her late dog, Floyd, who passed away in April 2014, and a naked woman standing in a body of water.