I hope that my account shows to other women that body hair is beautiful and normal. You can be an independent woman, working in a large corporation, studying in your dream direction, be loved by husband and still have a hairy and natural body. Sonia Cytrowska / mediadrumworld.com

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Like most females, secretary Sonia Cytrowska (28) from Gdynia, Poland first started to remove her body hair when she was 12 but thanks to airbrushing in magazines and on television, she constantly found herself comparing her hair to other girls who had more or less hair than her. Sonia Cytrowska / mediadrumworld.com What’s the last time you remember yourself having hairy armpits? If it was too long ago you need to do something about that because firstly, body hair is not something women should be ashamed of and secondly, it’s the latest trend for women all over the world. Yes. It’s taken two to three years to get as comfortable with my body hair as I am now. I started with letting my arm pit hair grow out first. It worked as a filter: if someone came up to me at a bar or club I would lift my arm up and if they were judgmental, I would know that they were not the kind of person I wanted to associate with. Most people cared less than I thought. Styled with Sleeper pajama set and Brinker & Eliza earrings Styled with Sleeper pajama set and Brinker & Eliza earrings I stopped shaving my last year of high school because I was really coming into a new form of myself! I was in love with how I looked with body hair, especially under my armpits, and it was satisfying to do something that felt true to me and was definitely not the norm where I was from. I still got hated on a bit but I felt my queer self staring to expand and be loved by myself.Sonia admits that her husband, Tobiasz, of three years struggled with her natural appearance at first but said that their love conquered any of his confusion on the matter. We are all individual owners of our bodies and have a right to feel at home in them, whether that pleases others or not.’ Chloe, 39 Styled with & Other Stories dress and Christie Nicolaides earrings Styled with & Other Stories dress and Christie Nicolaides earrings

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But it is still hard when I meet new people, for example when I was searching for a new job or going to lectures at university. At home, with my husband or friends I feel safe and accepted. I can easily show my body hair and it is natural for me,” she added. Regardless of my inner conflict, I’m clear on what I want for myself and women everywhere: to feel unburdened, regardless of their choices. And celebrating a wider variety of choices seems like an important step in achieving that. So I asked four women who let their body hair grow free to show me what it looks like and tell me what it feels like to write their own beauty rules. Their answers were nothing short of hopeful. Scroll down to see what Rima, Josie, Camila and Alexandra have to say about body hair. Grow it or not but never feel pressured to do something to your body just because society as a whole says you should.’ Emina Redzepovic, 34

The hardest thing was to accept myself and to feel confident with my hairy body in front of others, even if they whisper and stare at me. It was hard to accept that sometimes people can reject me if they will know how I really look like. Body hair in my society is a taboo”. Yes, I shaved from 5th grade to 12th grade. I started shaving because all of my classmates in elementary school would make fun of me for how hairy I was, saying I looked like the boys in my class (which I didn’t see an issue with because I hung out with all the boys, but I still felt that I needed to shave it off). That’s why I made a post about it on social media. I saw January and thought this is a good thing for woman. I also just wanted to feel the difference between shaving and not shaving, it’s a little more freedom.’ These are some of the other people embracing Januhairy: