Canadian influencer Spencer Barbosa says she gets ‘crazy hate’ and called ‘disgusting’ amidst claims she does not shave her body hair.
Choosing to embrace her body in its natural state, she started sharing pictures and videos of herself on social media, which gathered mixed reactions.
Said She Has Had Enough
Spencer, now 21, says she spent ‘years’ hiding and grooming her body hair, but by the age of 17, she’d had enough of feeling embarrassed.
But people do not take her body positive content and she’s met with a lot of backlash for refusing to shave her back and arm hair.
The 21-year-old has since gained confidence to hit back at her trolls in a TikTok video that has racked up hundreds of thousands of views.
In one clip, she pokes fun at the people saying, ‘Girls shouldn’t have back hair’, dancing around with her back exposed to show her dark hair.
The Hate Tags She Receive
In another post, she shares an insight into the sort of trolling she gets – including ‘her poor boyfriend‘, ‘body hair is disgusting’, ‘women don’t have moustaches’, ‘please shave’, and a series of comments about her weight.
Spencer also advocates for body positivity across the board, sharing clips of her wrinkles, crow’s feet and developing smile lines, as well as close-up shots of her skin.
In one TikTok, which garnered 134,000 likes, she shows the difference between her body in its posed state versus more candid shots.
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Spencer added: ‘It is very important for me to post about body hair because I remember being 10 years old and begging my mum to let me shave my legs because the boys in my class started pointing it out.
‘I fell into an awful trap of shaving my entire body because I was scared of being bullied, or I was scared that people would perceive me as ‘hairy’.
