Posted on 02/10/2005 2:57:27 AM PST by MadIvan
Posing hand on hip in a cutaway dress, Drew Barrymore has an announcement to make.
She has joined the growing number of celebrities who have stopped shaving under their arms - and don't care who knows it.
The 29-year- old Charlie's Angels star made her fashion statement at a New York catwalk event featuring designer Marc Jacobs.
With his penchant for dressing models in combat boots and army-style jackets, Jacobs is famed for his grunge-inspired look - and Drew certainly fitted in.
One of those attending the event at the Lexington Avenue Armory observed: 'She looked absolutely stunning but all people were talking about backstage were her hairy armpits.'
Born into one of Hollywood's great acting dynasties, the granddaughter of John Barrymore has never shunned publicity.
She appeared in her first advert at nine months and her first TV movie aged two. She hit the big time aged seven, as the cherubic Gertie in Steven Spielberg's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial.
By the age of nine she had become a heavy drinker and at 11 turned to drugs.
She entered rehab for the first time when she was 13 - and returned for a second spell within a year.
In 1994 she married Welsh bar owner Jeremy Thomas but it lasted just seven weeks while her second marriage, to Canadian comic Tom Green, ended in divorce three years
ago. She is rumoured this week to have dumped latest boyfriend Fabrizio Moretti, drummer with the rock group The Strokes.
By going for the natural look armpit-wise, she is in famous company. In April 1999 Julia Roberts revealed her secret as she waved to the crowd at the UK premiere of Notting Hill.
A year ago Elizabeth Jagger posed, arms aloft, in a series of portfolio photos sporting an extravagant curly perm with matching accessories.
Actress Helena Bonham Carter is also known to shun the razor, as are Emma Thompson and Miranda Richardson.
By contrast, the macho men of Chelsea Football Club have given the red card to upper body hair.
Several stars stripped off their shirts following last week's victory over Blackburn Rovers to reveal waxed chests gleaming under the floodlights.
The trend was started by England player Frank Lampard, who was photographed on holiday last year sporting a smooth top half - including hairless armpits.
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..Life’s just a cocktail party on the street
Big apple
People dressed in plastic bags
Directing traffic
Some kind of fashion
DON'T GIVE THEM ANY IDEAS!!!!
Yes, yes it is a cocktail party....for better or for worse.
That's true. It has to do with how much one bathes. Women with shaved arm pits can smell just as bad if they do not keep clean. It is strange that shaved arm pits and legs is such an ingrained thing in American culture. It hasn't been around that long really. It started around the early 1920's but one would think we have felt this way forever. I personally do not find it ascetically appealing therefor I shave. I guess it is just what you ate used to.
Ewwwwwww. France can have them.
With Mick though, cocktail could have a whole different meaning.
LOL
Yes, it means that he's not paying for it...
Forsooth, hirsuit!
Julia Roberts' was worse a few years' back.
She and Ben Bratt were walking a red carpet somewhere, and she raised her hand to wave to some photographers, and she was downright French-looking in her grooming!
They also only bathed once a week. I lived in Germany for 7 years and got lazy about shaving - figured I didn't look worse that all the locals. But I didn't give up the daily shower although I rarely broke a sweat. It was COLD over there!
Sure it does... but having lived among some of the nastiest smelling people the last 13 years, I truly believe it has nothing to do with armpit hair.
The summers here in Kuwait are brutal and I'd like to believe that the last shreds of deodorant clinging to my whispy armpit hairs after a full day get me through the day without offending anyone.
By the looks of this photo, proof she's not a natural blonde.....
When I saw "Drew" in the title, I thought it was Drew Carey. I thought "So what's the big deal"?
Oh come on, not shaving ones armpits is not filthy as long as one continues to bathe.
Harley guy has hit the nail on the head, First it was drugs then tattoos, she craves attention . She is one of the spoiled Hollywood brats and she is getting on in age.
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