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What's wrong with being a hairy woman?

01 March 2007 - First Magazine

Comedian and columnist Shazia Mirza, 30, was challenged by a TV company to give up shaving her body hair. Here she waxes lyrical about why she now believes hairy can be sexy

"Are you a hairy woman? Then you must be a lesbian or a feminist or both." No, actually - I'm just hairy. Over the past few months I have become so hairy I am now a man trapped in a man's body...

Shazia's column in The Guardian

Shazia's weekly column- Diary of a Disappointing Daughter is in The Guardian Weekend Magazine every Saturday.
Read it in the Silly Writings Section or www.theguardian.co.uk

Columnist of the Year

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