Marie Claire has appear a alluring adventure and accompanying video profiling three women who accept struggled with acute facial hair, but accept been able to affected civic adorableness standards and their own hangups to now embrace the bristles on their face.
Alma Torres, 24, from the Bronx, New York, has appear to adulation and be appreciative of her beard, which is acutely absolutely thick. But, for a continued time, accepting her facial bristles was a above hurdle in her life.
She began atom aback she was in the eighth grade. “I baldheaded my sideburns — they were blubbery and long. It was a bad idea. They grew aback thicker,” she recalled. “After that, aggregate went downhill. It was like everybody was talking about it. It was so bad that I chock-full activity to school. I alone out.” She said she baldheaded for 8 years, as abounding as four or bristles times a day, got facial piercings to advice draw people’s eyes to article abroad besides her scruff. Her captivation with removing her facial bristles was so acute that she would backpack razors about with her everywhere she went so she could stop to barber if he five-o’clock adumbration began growing in. “I was actual self-conscious. I had actual low self-esteem,” she told Marie Claire.
Hirsutism, as the action is known, affects as abounding as 17 percent of women, Marie Claire reports, but alone a tiny atom of that bulk aboveboard wears facial hair. The action is a evidence of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, or PCOS, which after-effects in continued ovaries and weight gain, in accession to the boundless facial hair, admitting not all cases are acquired by it. Torres said she was diagnosed with PCOS at age 16.
Torres, a photographer, fabricated accord with her facial bristles aftermost year. In August, she absitively to stop atom her face and acquaint on Facebook about her struggles with PCOS to accession acquaintance about the condition.
She’s additionally actual the attending of her face as her bristles has developed in over the aftermost 15 months. She said she’s generally asked by added women how it’s accessible for her to not affliction about what added bodies ability anticipate of her facial hair. “I acquaint them, it wasn’t done overnight. You aloof accept to embrace yourself and who you are,” Torres said.
Marie Claire batten two to added women, one of whom proudly wears a mustache. The other, additionally diagnosed with PCOS, wears a bristles agnate to what Torres sports.
Watch about their adventures in the video below.
Read the abounding adventure at Marie Claire.
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