By Wonderwall.com Editors
9:42am PDT, Jul 30, 2022
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Wonderwall.com is taking a look back at more than 20 female celebs who've stepped out with lengthy body hair over the years, starting with this iconic singer …Britney Spears revealed her hairy pits while walking the red carpet before the 2003 American Music Awards in Los Angeles.
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Iconic screen siren Sophia Loren was known to rock lengthy armpit hair early in her career. She posed with an arm behind her head, revealing her signature body-hair look, in Venice, Italy, in 1955.
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While speaking during the 2015 amfAR Inspiration Gala New York in New York City, Miley Cyrus triumphantly pointed to the sky. She revealed her armpit hair in the process.
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Drew Barrymore flashed her armpit hair while posing with a baby-faced Marc Jacobs following his presentation during Olympus Fashion Week in New York City in 2005.
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Julia Roberts famously raised her arm to reveal a swath of lengthy armpit hair during the London premiere of "Notting Hill" in 1999. Nearly two decades later, the Oscar winner admitted it was a total accident: "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," she told Busy Philipps on the "Girls5eva" star's short-lived talk show, adding that she wasn't trying to make "a statement" about women and body hair.
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In 1968, a pre-fame Helen Mirren raised her arms to reveal her hairy armpits while starring as Cressida in a scene from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre's production of "Troilus and Cressida" in Stratford, England.
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In 2019, Bella Thorne — who frequently eschews shaving — rocked lengthy leg hair at the grand opening of On The Record at the Park MGM in Las Vegas. A few years earlier when a troll implored her on Twitter to "shave your legs," the former child star fired back, "HAHAHHA NEVER."
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Alyssa Milano's armpit hair was slightly visible at an Xbox launch event in Los Angeles in 2005.
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She's still got it! In 2021, Alyssa Milano took to Instagram to share this photo of herself rocking hairy pits. "Armpit hair, don't care," she wrote in the caption.
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In 1985, Grace Jones lifted an arm to reveal her armpit hair during the Fashion Aid event in London.
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Even Beyonce has been known to rock body hair in public! In 2008, her armpit hair was visible at the premiere of "Cadillac Records" in New York City.
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If it works for Beyonce, it also works for Kelly Rowland, who rocked armpit hair at the 2008 InStyle Best Beauty Buys Awards in London.
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Juliette Lewis's armpit hair was on full display in 2002 when she wore a backless dress to the afterparty for the New York City premiere of "Enough."
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So nice, she did it twice! Juliette Lewis tussled her shag 'do — revealing her armpit hair in the process — during the 2005 Kerrang! Awards in London.
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When Julia Michaels waved on the red carpet during the 2021 Grammys in Los Angeles, she revealed the patch of dark hair on her armpits. A year earlier, she tweeted, "Honestly, I'm not shaving my armpits ever again. I don't know why I ever did before. Social norms can eat an eggplant."
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Mo'Nique's hairy legs were on full display during the 2010 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles. "I tried shaving one time. It was so uncomfortable and so painful, and when it grew back, it grew back even thicker, and more of it. I said never again would I do that to myself," she told Barbara Walters in 2010, though she has, in fact, shaved her legs since then.
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Jemima Kirke frequently rocks armpit hair in public. In 2017, for example, the "Conversations with Friends" and "Girls" actress revealed her hairy pits at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. "It's just my own personal preference," she tweeted in 2015 of her decision to eschew shaving.
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Lola Kirke followed in big sis Jemima Kirke's footsteps by rocking body hair in public in 2017: The "Gone Girl" and "Mozart in the Jungle" actress revealed lengthy armpit hair on the red carpet at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills. "Hairlessness is equated with consumption. And when a woman defies the ability to be easily consumed, that's threatening, because when we consume them, we're able to control them," she told Teen Vogue of the public backlash to her decision to eschew shaving.
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"Transparent" actress Gaby Hoffman rocked a fuzzy dress to match her fuzzy pits during the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles. "People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. They can't imagine that people would want to be anything other than that. It's a further comment on the culture at large that people assume we were making a statement," she told Observer in 2013 of the public reaction to her decision to eschew shaving.
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In 2015, Scout Willis's armpit hair was on full display — even when she stood with her arms firmly at her sides — during the "Impossible 8×8" Universal Lab launch event in London, where her photography was on exhibition. "Love that I make art and all people seem to care about is the state of my underarms," she tweeted the following day.
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Back in 2004, Paris Hilton flashed a bit of armpit fuzz while hosting the Blackjack on the Beach event in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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In 2012, Pixie Lott revealed a small patch of armpit hair at the U.K. premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises" in London. She later tweeted that she was "a little bit hairy" because she was "between waxes" at the time. She laughed off the incident by writing "ooooopsies" and "hahaha."
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Lady Gaga really committed to her turquoise tresses during the 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto: She didn't just wear an extra-long turquoise wig — she also wore patches of fake turquoise hair attached to her armpits and groin region.
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King Princess — who identifies as non-binary and uses she/they pronouns — flashed her armpit hair while performing during a 2020 concert in Oakland, California. Later that year, she told GQ that she doesn't "give a f***" about critics of her body hair.
