11 female celebrities with armpit hair proudly on display| Glamour UK
The subject of female body hair is one we can never seem to escape, even though it's a completely natural and rationally non-offensive part of being an adult. Even when the ‘full bush’ was deemed ‘back on trend’ we still felt despair that something so natural has be to deemed ‘fashionable’ in order for it to feel acceptable - though don't get us wrong, whatever helps women feel more comfortable in their own skin is a good things in many ways.
So, when Rachel McAdams specifically requested that all the images from a recent photoshoot for Bustle receive “minimal” retouching – including her armpit hair – we cheered. The pictures accompany a feature in Bustle. “I felt like a milking machine,” she told the outlet of her time on set, pumping between takes to feed her five-month-old daughter. After the birth of her first child in 2017, she posed for a different shoot with a breast pump alongside her couture ensemble. “I love that juxtaposition of beauty, glam, fantasy, and then truth,” she said.
“With this shoot, I’m wearing latex underwear,” she said. “But I’ve had two children. This is my body, and I think that's so important to reflect back out to the world."
And the younger generation are leading by example too. According to a recent study, nearly one in four women under the age of 25 have stopped shaving their underarms. And during quarantine, it’s likely that this number is only going up, with many embracing a more lived-in look. But this long overdue shift in society’s standards of female beauty wouldn’t have been possible without the women who bucked convention in the first place.
So to keep this bandwagon going and shine a spotlight on some of the female celebrities who are championing armpit hair - and body hair in general - just by being themselves in public, we have picked out 11 celebrities who have worn their armpit hair loud and proud.
Emma CorrinThe Crown's Emma Corrin put their armpit hair front and centre when appearing as our November 2020 GLAMOUR UK digital cover star.
The actress, now 24, showed off her underarm hair during the The Hate You Give premiere at the London Film Festival in 2018, wearing a plunge Valentino gown with cut-out sides and back with displayed her tufts.
We're here for the Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret actress' proud flaunting of her armpit hair in her minimally-retouched (at her request) photoshoot for Bustle.
At the Notting Hill premiere in 1999, Julia Roberts became an accidental poster girl for armpit hair.
Appearing on Busy Philipps' talk show, Busy Tonight, years later, she said: “I just hadn’t really calculated my sleeve length and the waving and how those two things would go together and reveal personal things about me.”
The American singer-songwriter, whose real name is Mikaela Mullaney Straus and identifies as genderqueer using the pronouncs she/they/it/its, has never been shy to show off her armpit hair.
If Queen Bey's doing it, we can too: the superstar flashed a minimal bit of armpit hair at the 2009 premiere of Etta James biopic, Cadillac Records.
Britney Spears displayed her armpit hair in 2003, at the 31st Annual American Music Awards.
The actor put on a cool show of underarm fuzz in a black low-cut dress. More recently, the star has spoken in an Instagram video earlier this month about going “three months” without removing her armpit hair.
The American actress showed armpit hair and sexy most definitely go together while wearing a plunging gown in 2002.
The Flowers singer gave an underarm hair heavy salute while wearing a corseted dress in 2005, and we're here for the au natural look.
The Girls star matched her flowing locks to her armpit hair on the CFDA Fashion Awards red carpet in 2015.
Lady Gaga showed off stubbly underarms in a selfie shared on Instagram in 2017.
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