You’ve found out about my disgusting pregnancy wart. Someday soon you’ll get to see my massive (oh my goodness, you must be 9 months pregnant, how did you get so big?) belly. So you might as well know about my hairy chin.
Yes. When I am pregnant I sprout hair. Long, dark random hairs. On my chin…and my stomach…and a few other places that those hairs just feel like growing. And it’s just gross. Especially because I am really light skinned and quite blonde (thank you highlites) so those long dark hairs really seem to stand out.
When I was in university, my academic counsellor (we all had one, don’t judge) had the hairiest chin I had ever seen. She was sweet as apple pie, but I could not take my eyes off those dark hairs dangling where they just shouldn’t have been. I wanted to slip her a bottle of Nair of a gift certificate for waxing..something. Now I’M that counsellor! I’m that woman with the hairy chin whose Jr. High student are, I’m sure, noticing every disgusting hair that dangles where it shouldn’t be.
I’ve spent the last few weeks parked nightly in front of a magnifying mirror, tweezers in hand, trying to tame my growing beard. I don’t know if there’s any truth to the idea that if you tweeze one dark hair, it’ll grow back darker, thicker, and multiply, but it appears to be right in my case. At this point, I might as well embrace these hairs, braid ’em, stick a bead on the end and call it a day.
The good part? The hair on my head is look thick and fabulous! My legs have never been covered with more silky smooth hair (it’s light and it’s winter, so whatever) and my son has never had more fun yelling out “Mommy has a BEARD” (thanks hunny…wonder who taught him that?).
Tell me, did you find yourself sprouting a hairy chin/belly/body during your pregnancy? What do you use to get rid of those hairs (because tweezing just ain’t working over here anymore)?
My hair actually thins out when pregnant. I had one ugly, stubborn chin hair and just came to the realization I have not seen it since I got knocked up. Yay me 🙂
But my rate of hair loss seems to be just as bad as before… so in that respect, I wish I got the hairy syndrome you’ve experienced…
The picture will come- I promise. I have yet to have one taken that I am willing to share- may try tonight in my bathroom mirror….we’ll see.
So true Ruth….but after menopause our eyesight is so bad, we can’t even see that we have hair where we shouldn’t have hair.
i saw that! i get one of those every so often on my lower back! it’s usually about 2 inches by the time i get it and i wonder how does it get so long without me noticing???
I saw the tweezers and looked at this post and thought.. once again, I have them beat. But my lovely sister beat me to it. I am the proud owner of 4 nipples (my son was born with a double nipple so between the 2 of us we have 7). Mooo – Moooo!!!
I had 2 hairs that grew under my belly button each time I was preggers. I’d just pluck them out. After Eva I never saw them again. I also developed vuvlar varicose veins with. Eva’s pregnancy. Likely one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen. They went away a few days after delivery.
ummm….someone who shall remain nameless but may or may not be my sister…sprouted an extra nipple or two…so really a hair…no biggy! hahaha – I have three random chin hairs (I call them my billy goats) and I swear to god I can feel them the second they break the surface of my face…so irritating!
I have never had any chin hair…but did you ever watch Rosie O’Donnell’s talk show? She once had a really long chin hair and then SHE BEADED IT. It was simultaneously the grossed and most hilarious thing I have ever seen.
Lol oh the joys of pregnancy! I had random hairy patches on my stomach so much for those cute pregnant belly pictures .. on that note .. I want to see YOUR baby belly!!
i have had those darn things forever it seems, even before kids. wtf anyway? i’m a girl! the only good thing about my leg hair while i was pregnant was that it seemed to practically disappear. usually i go 3 weeks between waxings (insert gorilla noises here) and i could go as long as 6 when i was carrying.
however, my first trip back after my daughter was born sent my esthetician into hysterics and i didn’t blame her. i swear i brought my husband’s legs with me, it was horrific!
and, no, tweezing doesn’t make them come in more. want proof? take a look at most of our mom’s eyebrows…overtweezed and they’re never growing back! 🙂
Hormones, hormones, hormones….that’s what I was told by my OBGYN nurse:)
You ain’t seen nothing yet….wait until “menopause”….it gets even better!
But seriously…a small price to pay for bringing a wonderful human life into this world.