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Let’s talk about body hair (🇫🇷les poils)! Earlier this summer (🇫🇷cet été), I quit caring about the hair on my body. I stopped waxing (🇫🇷se faire épiler) and shaving (🇫🇷se raser) because I didn’t want to spend the 🕒time and 💰money. I’m learning to embrace my body (🇫🇷mon corps) in its natural state, to not think of female body hair as “gross.” I’m also accepting that it’s OK for my feelings to fluctuate—sometimes, I want to remove my hair. I listen to myself. 🤍 With or without hair, I’m feminine. I’m feminine because I FEEL feminine, and that’s enough. I want to disassociate my femininity from my physical attributes. After all, it’s just hair on my body! 💕 What about the French & body hair? There’s a cliché that French people—including women (🇫🇷les femmes)—don’t remove their body hair, but nowadays it’s not very true. All my French girlfriends regularly 🪒shave, 🥣wax, or do 💥laser hair removal. I’m the odd one among them. I still sometimes feel uncomfortable—especially when people stare at my body hair. Although people rarely say something. Instead, I can feel them silently judging me 👀. But I’m learning not to care (🇫🇷s’en ficher). 💪 🇫🇷French hair vocab: –les cheveux = hair (on your head) –les poils = hair on your body (like on your legs, armpits, etc.) 💡Did you know? These French nouns are usually said in the plural form unless you’re referring to a specific piece of hair. Ex: J’ai des poils sur mes jambes = I have hair on my legs. 👉How do you feel about body hair? If you remove yours, do you think it’s because of social pressure? . . .