Like Rachel McAdams, I don’t shave my armpits — or care what people think
nypost.comgrowing out her underarm hair.“It’s my body, it’s my choice,” Margolies, 42, a yoga teacher and mother of two from Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, told The Post. “I stopped shaving because I couldn’t come up with a good reason for why I was doing it in the first place.”As a native of Bogotá, Colombia, Margolies — who moved to New York in 1999 — began shaving her underarms, eyebrows and legs at age 12, in accordance with cultural norms, which equated a hair-free body with femininity.
But she never liked the pressure she felt around grooming. “Women are taught that it’s not okay to have body hair,” she said. “But I’m confident in my choice not to shave if I don’t want to.
It’s empowering to stand my ground.” Margolies, who touts her pro-hairy pits rhetoric to over 446,000 followers on TikTok, echoes the sentiments of actress Rachel McAdams, 44.
The star of the upcoming film “Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret,” McAdams unabashedly flaunted her au natural underarms for the April 2023 edition of Bustle Magazine. “This is my body, and I think that’s so important to reflect back out to the world,” McAdams said. “I love that juxtaposition of beauty, glam, fantasy, and then truth.”She’s just one of many Hollywood heroines who are friendly to the follicles.
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