Bearded Woman Harnaam Kaur Says She Is Proud of Her Mane: "This Body Is Mine"
- At age 12, Harnaam Kaur a beard started growing on Harnaam Kaur face, and all efforts to wax it made things worse
- After four years of fruitlessly trying to hide her facial hair, she resolved to embrace it and grow it
- Now 31 years old, the motivational speaker said she is proud of her beard and comfortable in her skin
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Harnaam Kaur, a woman who went viral online for her full beard, has expressed pride in her looks.
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Kaur proud of her beard
The 31-year-old, a hit on social media, encouraged women to challenge traditional beauty norms during International Women’s Day.
Kaur, who has faced taunts and criticism for her look, said she has learned to be comfortable in her skin and accepted herself.
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“I am happy living as a young, beautiful, bearded woman. I have realised that this body is mine, I own it, I do not have any other body to live in, and so I may as well love it unconditionally,” she told My London.
However, Kaur said that she would not encourage other women with facial hair to keep it because of the challenges she had to overcome.
“I will never tell someone to go out and keep your facial hair. I’ve been strong enough to go out and handle it. Other people might not be,” she said.
The lady also admitted that she never thought she would reach 16, as she harboured thoughts of self-harm.
Kaur’s diagnosis, a turning point
When Kaur was 12, she was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which changed her life.
PCOS has a wide variety of symptoms, including weight changes, hair growth and mental issues.
To avoid being noticed by her peers in school, her mother would take her to have her beard waxed by the more she waxed, the thicker and faster the facial hair grew.
Kaur said she looked starkly different from the other girls in her class and was on the receiving end of mockery by schoolmates.
However, her turning point came when she turned 16 and decided that she would embrace her bread and let it grow to challenge societal expectations of what women should look like.
Kaur is now an internationally recognised motivational speaker and activist who has appeared on the cover of Vogue Japan and numerous other magazines.
Man still holds Guinness World Record for carrying lady weighing over 63kgs with his beard alone
Meanwhile, Briefly News previously reported on a man, Antanas Kontrimas, set a Guinness World Records for the heaviest weight ever lifted by a human beard.
In an Instagram post by the organisation, the man pulled up a lady strapped to his beard. The human was so surprised that he did it.
The weight of the lady according to Guinness World Records was 63.80kg. To get the task done, the man bent like an athlete who was about to lift an iron weight with his hands.
After completing the herculean task, he raised his hands up in victory. The skin on his face was stretched taut and looked as if it would come off his face.
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