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Like Rachel McAdams, I don’t shave my armpits — or care what people think
growing 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.