Gilbert Arenas' PETA PHOTOS: Shirtless Pictures, Tattoos And More

Gilbert Arenas is in the news following his suspension stemming from reports that he drew a gun on a teammate. But there's more to the Wizards guard. He recently finished a photoshoot for the animal rights group PETA, in which he bared his chest to support an anti-fur campaign.

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In one of the images, Arenas' arms are spread wide, revealing an elaborate tattoo. Text accompanying the photo says "Ink, Not Mink." At the bottom of the image is the text "Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs."

The campaign's web page says more:

NBA guard Gilbert Arenas scores points for animals and joins other legendary sports stars and celebrities by posing for PETA's "Ink, Not Mink" campaign. Gilbert shows off his tattoos and bares his skin to help animals keep theirs.

Foxes, coyotes, minks, rabbits--even cats and dogs--are bludgeoned, strangled, and genitally electrocuted in the name of fashion. To avoid damaging their pelts, workers even skin some animals alive.

Arenas joins other prominent athletes to support animal rights, including Amar'e Stoudemire and Tony Gonzalez, who posed nude with his wife. Visit PETA.org for more information.

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Comments

[Fred303]

06:58 PM on 01/12/2010

i cant see the Ink mang!

[jesuslovesObama]

11:24 PM on 01/08/2010

Thug Life.... uh, I mean the NBA.

[ewj1]

12:10 PM on 01/12/2010

Thug Life.... uh, I mean the PETA folks.

[BebeLush]

02:59 PM on 01/07/2010

Ink not mink. Catchy and great!

[Bartolo27]

01:46 PM on 01/07/2010

Most tattoos look like sh*t.
I just don't get it.
It might make sense if they were easy to remove.

[Travis bdboy]

11:14 AM on 01/07/2010

This confirms it...HP is going tabloid along with TMZ and Nat Enq

[Dannydel]

08:27 AM on 01/07/2010

Now if only Gilbert could show us some common sense instead of trying to go 'Gangsta' to try and impress the 'homeys', he might still be playing roundball. There must be a list of obligatory initiation rights that an agent gives to a new NBA player. 1. Buy the biggest, most gaudy car you can 2. Put a gun under the seat #. Go out to a strip club at 3 a.m. 4. Go straight back to 'the hood', to show off your new 'bling'. 5. Speed, frive drunk, get a girl pregnant or something equally dumb and get your name in the papers for all the wrong reasons. It just seems like a predictable pattern with so many athletes. And in many cases, it starts in college (Tennessee etc.). Good to see Stern put his foot down. This guy should have to work for a living. He had his shot and he wasted it.

[StuManChu]

10:37 AM on 01/08/2010

It is actually get multiple girls pregnant. Otherwise spot on.

[Stilts9]

11:27 PM on 01/06/2010

Gilbert, don't think about yourself so much. Go do something.

[horsey]

11:05 PM on 01/06/2010

is that suppose to be cool?

[Jj]

07:58 PM on 01/06/2010

"Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs." That's an ironic statement; if he was comfortable in his own skin, he wouldn't be inking it up so much. Anything more than a simple tattoo is a cry for help. In my experience, the most confident people wear their tattoos on the inside.

[horsey]

11:05 PM on 01/06/2010

cosign

[BitterReality]

11:58 PM on 01/06/2010

Hello! You might want to get down off that high horse for a minute, and have a look at my awesome tattoos! And ya know what? I don't care if you think it's excessive. I think that judgment you're dishing out is a little excessive.

[MMoya]

08:43 AM on 01/07/2010

this.

[Jj]

07:42 PM on 01/07/2010

That's OK, no hate, it's just my experience/opinion. I'll pass on your tatts but glad you find them awesome. And it just comes too close to his most recent gun allegation, at a time when his team is in last place. I miss the days when basketball was more about basketball instead of tattoos and guns. The tatts in and of themselves are usually not a big deal to me, If they appear ugly to me, I don't have to look at them until they show up prominently in an ad like this. It's just that all too often they are a symptom of the underlying inner chaos and drama that players like him act out publicly, spoiling the entertainment o sport, instead of getting help for privately.