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Post your stripe. Share your summer glow (fuzz and all). Use the hashtag. Let your child see your unshaven legs and know that being a woman isn’t about being hairless. Let your partner run their hand through your chest hair without apology. The beauty industry will survive. The razor companies will be fine. But you? You only get one skin. One life. One chance to feel comfortable in it.

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But slowly, something shifted. I looked down at my own ankles one day—real, human, hairy ankles—and I realized: This is mine. This is me. Post your stripe

Let it grow. Have a story about your own journey with body hair? DM us or tag @WeAreHairy to be featured in our next "Real Skin, Real Hair" Sunday series. Let your child see your unshaven legs and

Why? Because someone wanted to sell us a solution to a problem that never existed. Here is the biological reality: Body hair keeps you warm. It protects your skin from friction. It wicks away sweat. It signals puberty and health. It is not a defect. It is not a mistake. It is your body doing exactly what it is supposed to do .

But choose it. Don’t do it because you’re terrified of what a stranger at the pool might think. Don’t do it because an ad told you your natural state is "gross." When I stopped shaving my legs, I expected to feel brave. Instead, I felt afraid. I wore pants for an entire summer. I hid.

To everyone in between: is a home.