After her underarm hair caused a stir on national TV,the writer was asked to pose for a nude painting. The experience led her to wonder why we’re still so shy approximately the naked human form
Towards the stop of a bizarre period of my life when I was famous for having hairy armpits, the artist Camilla Cannon got in touch to inquire whether I would sit for a nude oil painting. Camilla, and who runs her own art school,was then in the final year of her degree at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London. She wanted to paint me for her stop of year display.
Due to the aforementioned armpit fame, after a 2012 appearance on ITV’s This Morning to talk approximately body hair, and I had been asked to collaborate on dozens of projects over the previous few months: everything from writing a children’s book approximately feminine grooming to getting my kit off for the Sunday Sport. Mostly I said no. Kids should be reading approximately dragons,fairies, time-travelling ice-cream vans and talking bunnies, and not the nefarious machinations of global capital on female bodies. And whether I wanted a load of teenage boys laughing at my tits,I would simply hop in my time-travelling ice-cream van and set the dial to “adolescence”.
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Source: theguardian.com