"Gooney goo hoo"
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.
I have only one word for her: YUCK!
You're just some SMART GUY.
Rule of thumb - actors are goofy. Hairy pits (and legs) were all the rage in the 60's too. It showed you were a "natural woman." Somehow you were resisting "the man" by throwing away your razors. So dopey.
I'm still wondering how she can be a "heavy drinker" at age 9, and into drugs at 11. Wasn't a parent or two around at that time?
I find it interesting that no one ever talks about unshaven men as having bad hygiene. If a woman doesn't want to shave that's ok. It might be a little weird at first but it wouldn't kill me.
LOLOL!!
Parents? I believe her parents are the ones who introduced her to both drugs and alcohol.
I'm glad they circled the armpit in that picture of Drew. I'd have never found it otherwise.
Yeah, like coming on Letterman's show, jumping up on his desk and dancing -- and flashing her chest at him.
Yup, she flashed Letterman.
And it's "fit in."
Hollyweird is definitely the "Soddom and Gamorrah(sp?)" of our time.....most of the women are sleazy and some of the men don't care what morals and values they emit from the screen......sad....very, very sad......
pit ping ; ~ D
By the looks of this photo, proof she's not a natural blonde.....
No it's not.
It is a subject hardly mentioned because I suspect it suggests women are slaves to fashion and still shackled by a society that frowns upon women with unshaven armpits.
Admit it ladies... you're shallow.
That is one of the funniest things I have ever read on FreeRepublic.
You've got to see this one.
"Gooney goo hoo"
Some may suggest that women that shave their armpits are shallow and slaves to the teachings Cosmo, Vague, and other fashion magazines.
"And more "confusion" among the sexes. Men shaving their chests and women growing armpit hair. Ugh"
No kidding!!! I personally find a hairy-chested man verrrry sexy. And well-groomed women always shave under their arms, for goodness sakes!
As far as Drew B. is concerned, if she lived in the Texas Panhandle, we'd all probably think that she's not quite right in the head.
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