Rihanna is no stranger to body art.

On Monday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show, she reveals how many tattoos she actually has.

"Approximately 13,” she says.

Her latest one is across her chest.

“It reads, ‘Never a failure always a lesson,’” says the singer, 21, who split with Chris Brown last year after he violently beat her. “It’s basically saying that it’s ok to make a mistake, just don’t make them twice.”  

Rihanna says she got the tattoo backwards so she can read it “in the mirror to myself.”

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