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Wales Online
Nisha Mal

'I'm trolled for my 'gross' hairy pits but they make me feel liberated'

A woman who "couldn't be bothered" to shave embraced her furry armpits and feels "liberated" showing them off in a bikini - despite being trolled for her "gross" body hair. Jo Brown, 28, used to shave each time she found her hair growing, before she decided to embrace her natural body hair during the pandemic.

Since ditching the razor, Joanna now hardly removes any of her body hair - instead flaunting her natural dark hair under her armpits, along with her bikini line and on her legs in skimpy bikinis and is urging others to do the same. Jo, who works as a nanny, said: “I got a lot of trolling.

"A lot of very mean comments saying it’s gross. I then, as a rebuttal, came back like ‘screw you all’.

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