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.
"Not everyone wants to look like a preteen girl."
And not every man wants women to look like preteen girls, either. Thank goodness.
This is a recycled fad that first appeared about 30 years ago. I recall a woman applying for a job where I worked, an obvious militant feminist.
She conformed to the point of wearing panty hose for the interview. However, her legs were so hairy that they stuck out of the panty hose giving her an unfortunate resemblance to a person wearing gorilla suit.
It was not pretty.
If someone is properly bathed, what is the problem with hair? And what is so important about shaving or not shaving? I don't understand.
the horror
You knew her political beliefs just by her leg hair?
I'm not going to shave my armpits anytime soon based on those suggestions.
LOL
I think shaving is the fad.
flap jacks...
I guess the fuzz is designed to distract from the crying need to add a supportive bra to this droopy ensemble...
How "french" of her.
Geesh, if I forget to shave, I atleast wear some sleeves over it.
TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!!!!! I'm going to go barf in the corner now.........
There is a theory (I'm not sure if any studies support this or not) that application of deodorant after shaving (nicks in the skin, etc.) is a contributor to breast cancer. If true, it would explain why women have a much higher incidence rate than men. Again, no idea if there's any merit to this, but it's something interesting to consider.
This should be no surprise, coming from someone in the cast of "The Planet of the Apes"!!!
Yes, I knew her political leanings by her leg hair.
Good thing she didn't have to depend on you for a job.
"If someone is properly bathed, what is the problem with hair? And what is so important about shaving or not shaving? I don't understand."
"I don't shave my underarms. If that makes me in league with the filthy French then so be it. I don't read those magazines AT ALL. Spot on!"
Good for you.
Last time I looked, America still stood for individual freedom.
Jeez, just what we need, celebreties giving our wives yet another excuse not to shave... its hard as hell for em to consistently shave their legs after they get that ring on their finger... no way I'm letting the armpit thing go... Wife decides to go french on that one, I'm outta there.
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