Frost said he thought he would never get another tattoo but changed his mind when he was 40 after his dad died of lung cancer. He said he started getting tattoos “as a way to turn spiritual pain into physical pain, and try to exorcise it.”“Now I’m 53, my whole top and arms are covered,” she said. “The tattoos meant people didn’t focus on how much you weighed, so it was like a suit of armor.”Nick Frost. Frost has spoken about his weight before and his past struggles with binge eating, which began at an early age. “And a realisation that I had very young children, and this is how I am, and they’re going to be left without a dad.