Pete Davidson showed off his bare arms at CinemaCon 2026 in Las Vegas on April 15, giving a clear look at how much ink he has stripped away after years of laser removal. The 32-year-old arrived in a red T-shirt, gray sweatpants, white Crocs, a chain, sunglasses and a baseball cap, with arms that were once completely covered in tattoos now appearing nearly bare.
The appearance matters because Davidson has been steadily undoing a body that once held 200 individual designs, a process he began in 2020 and has described as awful. He has kept only a handful of sentimental tattoos, including one that says MOMTATTOO, along with ink inspired by The Sopranos and a tribute to his late father, Scott Davidson, including his father’s ID number.
Davidson had already explained in October 2025 that the MOMTATTOO piece was staying after his mother asked why he had never gotten a tattoo for her. He said he now had one that just said MOMTATTOO, and that it had to remain. He also said then that he had his dad’s ID number tattooed on him, keeping the family memorials even as the rest of the work came off.
That leaves the story in a strange place: Davidson is treating tattoo removal like a public cleanup project, but not everything is being erased. He said he has been filming the process and showing it to younger people in his family so they can see what happens if they regret a tattoo later, and he has also said he is excited about making changes even though the process sucks. With a 4-month-old daughter, Scottie, at home with girlfriend Elsie Hewitt, the fatherhood chapter is arriving just as the old ink chapter is being peeled back.
What Davidson appears to want is not a blank slate, but a narrower one. He is keeping the marks that point to family and the roles he does not want to lose, while the rest of the work disappears under laser treatment. At CinemaCon, that choice was visible on his arms for anyone in the room to see.
