Truth be told, we all had some or the other complaint about the way we look. We thought of our body hair as a curse and thought of women who don’t have body hair as God’s favorite.
And it’s just not women who are ridiculed for not shaving their body parts. Men who don’t grow body hair are often regarded as ‘feminine’ or ‘not masculine enough’.
But it’s only now that we unapologetically embrace our bodies with or without body hair and say to those glaring judgemental eyes: it’s none of your business.
Recently, Indian film actor, Tillotama Shome took to social media and shared how unapologetic she was of her body hair and wore it the way she liked.
Sharing a picture in a sleeveless tee that read “un-apologetic” she flaunted her underarm hair and wrote:
I am sorry if I did something good because I could have done it better.
The visceral ones of course, slip out of your mouth in silence.
The t shirt is a reminder to use it less and mean it more.
(Oh and about body hair, yeah not sorry about it. I wear it as I like it. Its not a statement. I also wax. I also don’t. ) Good day! (sic)
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Her powerful post gave many of us the strength to embrace our bodies and not be sorry about them. This is how people reacted:
Earlier, actor Kalki Koechlin and her boyfriend flaunted armpit hair in an IG post. Thanks to them for using their influential voices to talk about such societal menace and empower those who still fight to fit in the ‘beauty box’ made of ridiculous beauty standards.