I really don't want this to sound snarky, so please don't take it that way... but surely your beautiful tattooes were somewhat painful when you got them, right?

I've had similar conversations with my wife a few times, on why I encourage her not to torture herself with fad diets and be happy with her body while I had no problem having laser hair removal on my legs. But it really seems to me like there's some distinction there that's difficult to articulate.

Making changes to our body might be painful in general, I guess... but I think that pain is worth it when we're doing it to better express the divinity we see in ourselves, rather than to align better with someone else's expectation of divinity.