Cara Delevingne in apparent tattoo blunder: 'You spelled it wrong'

Cara Delevingne's new tattoo has divided opinion as people have pointed out that it appears to contain a typo.

The model and actor, 31, has various inkings already and showed off her newest design in a photo on her tattoo artist's Instagram.

Tattooist Matteo Nangeroni's work included the Italian word "dormiveglia", meaning a semi-conscious state, alongside a dictionary definition - but it seemed to include a spelling blunder.

People commenting on the photo said that the definition had been changed by including the word "walking" instead of "waking".

It read: "Dormiveglia: The space that stretches between sleeping and walking."

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One person commented: "Nooo….you spelled it wrong it’s supposed to be “waking” not WALKING."

But Nangeroni, who was accused of deleting various other similar comments, responded: "maybe we choose like that? Compliments you can read."

Another person asked: "was "walking" instead of "waking" a choice or a typo?"

Someone else wrote: "Isn’t it meant to say waking?"

However, that was not the only controversy surrounding the photo, which shows Delevingne topless despite the tattoo being on her arm.

One person asked: "Why you make people take their tops off for an arm tattoo? And did you know it’s “waking” and not “walking”?"

Someone else commented: "As a woman, I’d never go to a male artist who posed a client needlessly topless. Do better."

Another person wrote: "If this was a famous male celebrity would you have them topless too? Seems unnecessary..."

Someone else added: "Why is she topless to show an arm tattoo WTF."

But Delevingne weighed in to defend Nangeroni, saying that she agreed with the decision to be topless in the photo.

She commented: "Just to be clear to everyone! I chose to take my bra off, the picture didn’t look good with my bra on. I am a perfectionist especially when it comes to photography and I was trying to help make something beautiful. Everyone calm down please. Thank you x"

One fan commented: "I find it more offensive that waking is spelled incorrectly."

Nangeroni also added: "Why 'Naked'? Why walking instead of waking? Maybe because everyone has her/his own vision."

Delevingne told Vogue magazine in March that she had got her first tattoo, a lion on her finger, as an act of teenage rebellion.

She said: "At that time you couldn’t get tattoos because it was part of your modelling contract, and they kind of owned your body."

But she hinted that she wanted to have some of her tattoos removed as part of a "fresh start" which includes having given up alcohol.