From genital wigs to shaven pits, Hollywood often presents a squeaky clean image – and that includes no body hair for its stars.
But plenty have broken the mould over the years and decided to embrace their pubic hair or put their hairy armpits fully on display. For Harry Potter star Emma Watson, pubic hair is simply part of her usual grooming routine, and in 2017 she confessed that as well as bleaching her top lip, she uses product on her downstairs.
The Hermione Granger actress told Cosmopolitan: “I bleach my top lip and tweeze my eyebrows and you’d never get to see that, even though it’s a part of my routine. There’s still so much shame around the things you do to get ready while you’ve got a towel wrapped around your head.
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“There’s that, and I use Fur Oil. I’ll use that anywhere from the ends of my hair to my eyebrows to my pubic hair. It’s an amazing all-purpose product.” Fur Oil claims to produce “silky pubic hair” and clears pores to prevent ingrown hairs – and Emma swore by it.
Britney Spears
In 2003, Britney Spears showed off her dark armpit hair as she attended the 31st Annual American Music Awards. She didn’t seem fazed as she proudly put both arms behind her head to give waiting cameras a glimpse of her body hair.
In the snap, Britney appeared to go braless in a semi sheer jade green gown, rising in an elaborate choker style around her throat as she let her blonde tresses loose around her shoulders.
Cameron Diaz
Shrek star Cameron Diaz dedicated a section of her 2014 book The Body Book to pubic hair, and says her pubes provide “a pretty draping” to add mystery to her vulva. She confessed her vagina is “fully dressed” with hair and ready for someone to “unwrap it” like a present.
She wrote: “I hear that there’s a big fad these days of young women undergoing laser hair removal on all of their lady bits. Personally, I think permanent laser hair removal sounds like a crazy idea. Forever?
“Pubic hair also serves as a pretty draping that makes it a little mysterious to the one who might be courting your sexiness. Pubes keep the goods private, which can entice a lover to come and take a closer look at what you have to offer.
“Also, let’s be honest: just like every other part of your body, your labia major is not immune to gravity. Do you really want a hairless vagina for the rest of your life? It’s a personal decision, but I’m just putting it out there: Consider leaving your vagina fully dressed, ladies.
“Twenty years from now, you will still want to be presenting it to someone special, and it would be nice to let him or her unwrap it like the gift that it is,” she added.
Lady Gaga
Back in 2013, Lady Gaga stripped off for a very controversial naked photoshoot, wrapping herself half in a fur coat but leaving one breast exposed – and her nipple covered by a scorpion ornament.
She applied a false moustache and showed her half-shaved, half-hairy vulva below where her coat gaped open. Gaga was posing for Candy magazine, taking on a Charlie Chaplin inspired look with extreme half-and-half make-up.
One fashion site noted at the time: “It’s one thing that naked female genitalia made the cover of a magazine; it’s another that said genitalia is, for lack of a better phrase, (relatively) au natural … having an artist of Gaga’s caliber go against the status quo — especially for a publication like Candy — toys with our perceptions of what’s considered normal.”
Amber Rose
Model Amber Rose wanted to show that waxing doesn’t have to be the new normal as she showed off her neatly trimmed pubic hair on Instagram – only for the snap to be quickly removed by the social media platform.
She was unfazed by the removal, writing: “When IG deletes your fire a** feminist post but you really don’t give a f*** because everyone picked it up already,” adding the tags #AmberRoseSlutWalk and #BringBackTheBush. She later reposted the snap to X, writing: “Imma post this one more time for the haters,” along with a tree emoji.
In the snap, Amber reclined on some wooden steps in a plunging black bra with an open robe around her shoulders, while the bottom of her body was totally bare and slick with oil. She added a pair of oversized shades and a white choker around her throat while sending fans wild.
Julia Roberts
In 1999, Julia Roberts broke the early internet when she showed off her armpit hair at the premiere of Notting Hill. The star rocked a sparkly red dress with no sleeves, and proudly waved at fans with her arms raised – showing off her unshaven pits.
Years later, Julia confessed it “wasn’t a statement”, explaining: “I think 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. So it wasn’t so much a statement as it’s just part of the statement I make as a human on the planet for myself.”
Miley Cyrus
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Wrecking Ball hitmaker Miley Cyrus is so unashamed of her armpit hair that she’s dyed it a variety of funky colours, including bright red. In one controversial snap, she went au natural in a leather overall which left her boobs totally bare.
Miley flashed the bird at the camera while wearing pink heart-shaped nipple covers with a J over them, raising one arm to snap a selfie and showing she had given her razor a night off while attending the 30th annual Rock and Roll Hal of Fame Induction Ceremony in 2015.
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