Not Just Kim Kardashian: Celebrities With Extreme Body Hair Habits

Celebrities tend to have varying attitudes toward their body hair. Some flaunt it. Some wax it to oblivion. Some even dye it (looking at you, Lady Gaga). But a few celebrities have what might be called more extreme body hair habits. To be fair, their habits aren't good or bad; they're just radical when considered through the lens of how the average adult feels about body hair.

How do most people feel about the hair from their temples to toes? According to a 2024 Dating Advice survey, 40% of U.S. adults are cool with letting their body hair do what it wants. However, the rest seem to exhibit a mixed bag of "let it be" versus "let it go," and often because of cultural or gender expectations. A 2013 article in Body Image noted that 81% of people in New Zealand found male body hair to be acceptable; only 11% felt the same way about female body hair. Interestingly, the participants were more accepting about men's back hair than they were about women's body hair in general. In other words, there's no single baseline for how to address body hair.

Nonetheless, some stars are manifesting their intense beliefs about their body hair in fascinating ways. Many are making a statement by going hair-free; some are being highly selective (and sometimes polarizing) about the body hair they keep. Either way, all of them are keeping the body hair conversation alive.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has talked about waxing and lasering the skin above her eyes. "I have the hairiest forehead you could ever imagine, and I would always break out and get all cracky on my forehead just from all the hair," she told People. The celebrity also admitted to Allure (via People) that the rest of her body below her head was just as hairless.

Do Kardashian's extreme hair removal views extend to her kids? Probably not, but she joked about it on X in 2013: "Do people really think I would wax my daughter's eyebrows so young? Come on, I'd wait until she's at least 2 1/2!"

In a 2025 Marie Claire interview, dancer Julianne Hough discussed how long she'd been keeping her skin hair-free. "I've been shaving my entire body — like my arms, too — since I was eight," she admitted. She added that she keeps her methods pretty simple, preferring to use a razor and shaving cream, as well as oil.

Hough's shaving at such a young age may sound extreme, but it's not entirely surprising. Pediatrician Dr. Katherine Lowe told Scary Mommy that some girls start puberty by eight, adding, "Sometimes body hair will actually start before true puberty."

Professional wrestler John Cena may have gone through two hair transplants, but he's thrown the rest of his body hair out of the ring. Cena told People that he shaves his entire body as part of a complex daily manscaping routine that requires "a lot of shaving cream and a very good razor — and time."

Cena's views are seemingly shared by many men, who tend to have more body hair than women. A 2019 survey of 2,000 U.S. men revealed that over half (55%) of the participants felt embarrassed by their body hair; however, 43% of them lacked confidence in their self-grooming skills (via StudyFinds).

For supermodel Ashley Graham, body hair is something to be celebrated and embraced, not hidden. "I have a full bush. Period. It's about your preference and your partner's preference," she shared during a Q&A session for Glamour. In an Instagram post, she posed while sporting underarm hair. That said, she sometimes shaves, and once even collaborated with a razor brand. 

Graham's open attitude toward body hair might not sound extreme, but it flies against prevailing societal norms. Per a SmoothSkin survey, 63% of women feel negatively about having body hair; women are also more likely to feel pressure to remove body hair than men.

Growing out her body hair has a unique effect on model Emily Ratajkowski. "I tend to like to shave, but sometimes letting my body hair grow out is what makes me feel sexy," she wrote for Harper's Bazaar in 2017. She then connected the desire to shave (or not) with the freedom to be fully herself as a woman.

An image accompanying her essay showed her with underarm hair, with some Instagram commenters deeming it unhygienic and unpleasant. But science is on Ratajkowski's side: Aside from being generally hygienic, unshaven armpit hair can have health benefits, such as reducing your risk of skin irritation and infections.

Comedian Jared Freid takes back hair seriously. After roasting Travis Kelce for sporting a hairy back instead of getting rid of the hair, Freid told Yahoo! that he considers back waxing a normal grooming procedure. "I've been getting waxed once a month for the last 15 years of my life," he said.

Male hair removal seems to be becoming increasingly popular. In a 2005 study in Sex Roles, 63.6% of male university students shared that they avail hair removal services. Thus, Freid's monthly habit might not be that peculiar, as long as he doesn't wax body parts that shouldn't be waxed.