It's tattoos for tots

Snapped out shopping with their mothers this weekend, Romeo Beckham and Angelina Jolie's son Maddox showed they, too, have a penchant for body art - but, thankfully, only the temporary kind.

Joining his mother Victoria on a shopping trip in Beverly Hills, four-year-old Romeo was sporting three round tattoos on his left arm - just like Daddy David.

The art was clearly visible as he clung to Posh, 33, on an escalator in department store Barney's, accompanied by his aunt Louise and cousin Liberty.

Meanwhile, a couple of states away in Illinois, Angelina and her six-year-old son were pictured leaving a bookshop in Chicago. The patterns on both Maddox and Romeo's tattoos were unrecognisable. They are easily removed with soap and water - something Angelina, 32, wished she could have done with one of hers. On her divorce from actor Billy Bob Thornton in 2003, she went through the pain of having a tattoo of his name removed from her arm, saying: "I'll never be stupid enough to have a man's name tattooed on me again."

However, Angelina has been no stranger to the tattooist's needle over the years and, at the last count, had 13 tattoos. The most recent were the geographical coordinates detailing the countries of birth of each member of her family.

David and Victoria Beckham have more than 10 tattoos between them.

The LA Galaxy star has Victoria's name in Hindi on his left arm, on his back a huge angel in the shape of a cross and the names of his three sons, Romeo, Brooklyn and Cruz.

Victoria has five star tattoos on her lower back - representing herself and her four boys - and David's initials on her wrist.