By ninemsn staff
An unlucky British man seems doomed never to get his ex-wife off his back after his decision to have her portrait tattooed on his body backfired when she left him for another man.
Alan Jenkins endured 20 painful hours of needlework — as well as forking out almost $2000 — to have the life-size faces of his wife Lisa and two daughters forever etched on his back.
However, his 36-year-old wife had the image of another man burned into her heart — a Latvian fitness instructor 11 years her junior.
"It's a real sickener," Alan told the Daily Mail.
"I thought she was happy.
"I had it because I thought we loved each other … I feel very betrayed."
Lisa, however, is making no apologies for her husband's permanent reminder of her infidelity.
"I didn't plan to fall in love with Kaspars," she said.
"And I never wanted Alan to have my face tattooed on his back in the first place."
Lisa now plans to move her new partner into their family home — after moving Alan out, of course — to live with her daughters Jade, 15 and Daniella, 10.
An optimistic Alan declared he would keep his eyes peeled — and the rest of his body ink-free — in an attempt to find another partner.
"Lisa may have left me but she'll be on my back forever thanks to the tattoo," he said.
"But I've still got plenty of room on my chest if I get hooked up again."
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