Body positivity has grown leaps and bounds over the past decade.
A lot of this is due to body-positive celebs who have taken a stand in rejecting societial beauty norms and preached about self-love instead.
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This means that a lot of female celebs have a relatable take when it comes to body hair. Instead of shaving it, they embrace it! It is 2021, after all.
Julia Michaels
The singer rocked armpit hair at this year’s Grammy Awards. This wasn’t a surprise to fans who saw her tweet about no longer shaving her armpits months prior.
“I don’t know why I ever did before. Social norms can eat an eggplant,” she wrote .
Rihanna
The singer proved what a queen she is when she posted this all-too-relatable selfie, which featured hair on her legs.
She didn’t even address the hair, which made us love and support her even more!
Emma Corrin
The actress, best known for portraying Princess Diana in Netflix’s The Crown , proudly displayed her armpit hair for the cover of Glamour UK .
She said that she started growing it out after becoming single. She realized that she didn’t want to shave and wondered why she ever bothered.
Miley Cyrus
Miley owns her armpit hair so much that she’s dyed it pink before .
Aside from the pink pits, she’s also posted a bikini pic of her armpit hair sticking out. What can we say? She’s all for being her authentic self.
Bella Thorne
The actress has always been so open about her love for body hair. So much so that she even penned an essay about it.
“If you really want my legs and armpits shaved so badly, you can do it yourself,” Thorne wrote . “I see myself and other girls get hate for having body hair. God forbid I’m not all waxed and oiled up AT ALL TIMES.”
Julia Roberts
The world had a meltdown when the Notting Hill actress showed up to the film’s premiere with unshaven armpits.
While she hadn’t intended to make a statement (she miscalculated her sleeve length), she shared that, “it’s just part of the statement I make as a human on the planet, for myself.”
Halsey
The singer’s always about keepin’ things real.
She embraced her natural side on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in 2019. In it, she rocked hardly any makeup, natural curls, and, yes, some armpit stubble. Yass, sis!
Paris Jackson
She’s a champion for body hair — quite literally.
“If you’re not competing with your brother over who can grow longer leg hair wyed [what you even doing],” she posted on Instagram, alongside this picture of her bare legs.
Mayim Bialik
In 2012, the Big Bang Theory alum shared on her website that she’s never shaved her armpits or legs.
“Seemed like a waste of time, a conformity that disgusted me (I was a feisty feminist even at 14).”
Madonna
The singer is the OG when it comes to freeing body hair. She’s long been a rebel in showing it off and embracing every inch.
“Long hair…… Don’t Care!!!!!! #artforfreedom #rebelheart #revolutionoflove” she captioned this epic picture in 2014. She’s the OG.
Lourdes Leon
Like mother, like daughter!
Much like her mom, Maddona’s daughter marches to the beat of her own drum. She doesn’t care about standard beauty norms.
She even rocked this body positivity movement at a Vogue fashion event .
Scout Willis
In case you didn’t know, Scout is one of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis’s daughters.
She frequently shares images of her rocking her armpit hair. She has also spoken out against Instagramming banning nipples on the platform.
Cara Delevingne
While the model had laser hair removal done on her armpits, that wasn’t the end of her hair journey.
She was more than proud to show off her armpit wigs for her new film, Her Smell .
Amanda Stenberg
The internet had a meltdown when Stenberg skipped the razor before the European premiere of The Hate You Give .
Instead of shaving, she met her haters head-on by captioning the photo on Instagram as “#drama #armpit.”
Bekah Martinez
In 2014, the Bachelor alum shared that she stopped shaving her legs and armpits as a practice of self-love.
“It has taken months to get used to it. The horrible online comments don’t help. But I’m getting there.”
Emily Ratajkowski
She first rocked body hair while posing for a Harper’s Bazaar cover. She then defended her decision not to shave with the publication .
“For me, body hair is another opportunity for women to exercise their ability to choose — a choice based on how they want to feel and their associations with having or not having body hair.”
Gigi Hadid
Yep — even supermodels have hair!
Gigi proudly showed off her impressive physique and body hair under her armpits while doing a 2017 video shoot with LOVE magazine. While some fans took issue with this, many applauded the move.
Adele
Not only did the singer grow a beard during pregnancy with her son — she named it !
“I only cropped it last night. It’s actually true. I’m not telling a joke… I actually have a beard, but I’m proud of it. I call it Larry.”
Ashley Graham
The supermodel has long been an advocate for all things body positivity.
In 2017, she even admitted to Glamour that she doesn’t trim her, erm, lady garden, saying, “‘Honey, I have a full bush. Period. It’s about your preference and your partner’s preference.”
