The first time Esther felt ashamed of her body hair was as a child. "I was in elementary school and my friends saw the hair on my stomach," she recalled. "Their reaction wasn't positive, they were shocked. In that moment, I knew that having body hair was not normal or that I had to remove it."
"I grew up in a predominantly white neighbourhood and school a few minutes from Montreal. My hairiness was a burden. I wouldn't go swimming because I didn't want to spend so much time removing my body hair to then seeing it grow back after two days, getting ingrown hair and scars.
