See ya later, razor! This fashion blogger is embracing her hairy legs, ditching one of Western society's beauty norms — and she's never felt happier. Special thanks to Dana Suchow.
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00:00Did Wonder Woman shave her legs even though she was in the Amazon or wherever she was?
00:05No. Wonder Woman was clean like a baby seal or a naked mole rat.
00:16And I just kept thinking, yeah, I don't like shaving. It's not something that I
00:21enjoy doing. I don't get excited for it. What I get excited for is the respect that people
00:27will give me because my legs are shaved. What I get excited for is adhering to
00:31society's beauty standards because I don't have body hair, which is perceived as masculine.
00:47People think that ads don't affect them. They think they're smarter than ads.
00:51When, to be honest, companies spend billions of dollars a year to get inside your brain and make
00:59you think that you're not good enough. I felt like I was living these two different lives.
01:03I felt like one life, I wanted to be this famous fashion blogger flown around the world who was
01:08getting free stuff and everyone thought was beautiful. And secretly, I was struggling
01:12with a very intense eating disorder. We have zero representation of actual women's bodies.
01:24And it reflects into me and my every day when I go out and I have hairy legs and people are
01:30pointing and people are, you know, whispering and they're doing this because they don't see it.
01:34Because women aren't allowed to be mammals the same way that men are. I used to be at the point
01:41where I wanted someone to like me before I would expose who I truly was. And now I'm at the point
01:47where I'll show up to a first date in shorts. Do whatever you want to feel safe and happy and
01:53healthy in your body.