'People say I should be shot for having a beard, but I've never felt sexier': Mother, 49, who sprouted FULL facial hair after birth of son 28 years ago is finally ready for love
49岁英国大妈自从长出胡子后变得性感而自信，准备寻找真爱
A mother who began sprouting thick facial hair after the birth of her son 28 years ago says she's feeling sexier and more confident than ever before, having finally stopped trying to get rid of her beard.
The German-born woman, identified only as Mariam, appeared on ITV's This Morningto discuss why she stopped tweezing the hair on her face which she had been plucking every day for almost two decades.
Mariam, 49, also explained to Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield that she is happy with the way she looks and would not change her situation, despite being criticised for her behaviour by her own mother.
She also said she is able to look past the comments of internet trolls who target her bearded woman blog to tell her 'people like me should be sent to Russia... or shot'.
Mariam - who has had tests to rule out serious medical problems more associated with excessive hair growth in women - told Phil and Holly, along with expert Dr Carol Cooper, that she had never had any facial hair before the birth of her son, after which it gradually began growing.
Ten years on, the hair was growing thick enough for a full beard, and Mariam would laboriously tweeze out each hair every morning.
10年的时间，她就可以长出一扎浓密的胡子了，所以她每天早上都需要用钳子一根根的把胡子拔掉。
'I asked my mother what to do and she told me to tweeze them, never to shave or wax. And then I visited my gynaecologist who said it happened to lots of other women so I shouldn't worry. But they didn't really give me a reason. Now I know it must be inherited
'My chin got really red and inflamed from all the plucking, and some of the hairs were ingrown, so it always looked like I'd fallen on my chin. But when people asked what had happened and I told them they couldn't believe it.'
“因为长时间的拔胡子，所以我的下巴又红又肿的，而且由一些胡子都长进了肉里了，所以看起来好像我的下巴摔到了地上似的。但是当人们问起时，我会告诉他们原因，但是他们无法相信。”
In 2008, when she was living alone and unemployed, Mariam decided to give her beard a chance to grow. She said: 'I had no job so I had free time to give it a chance and see what happened, so I started a blog to inform other women about it, and to see what was happening every day and how I felt.
Mariam explained to Holly and Phil that prior to her 'experiment' plucking her beard had become an obsession, and that her son, who has not been named, used to remember it taking her hours to leave the house.
She added: 'I thought about it all the time. I had to double check before leaving the house that it was OK, and take a mirror in my pocket. That was life.
'When I decided to let it grow it didn't feel brave, it was more like a curiosity. I wanted to see hwat would happen to me. There was a big fear that everyone would turn away and nobody would talk to me anymore.'
And Mariam did meet some resistance - from her family.
而她的确遇到了一些阻力，这些阻力来自她的家庭。
'My mum said "do you have to shock people like this". Then she got used to it and thought that one day I'd finish it, and was patient, but now she's getting nervous and wants me to stop and become "normal".'
She received negative reactions from other people, too, especially on the internet: 'People can be cruel depending on where you go.
她从别人那里接收到了负面的反应，尤其是在网上的反应：“在某些情况下，人们会变得很无情。”
'Some people say people like me should be sent to Russia or shot, but that's just one person on the internet writing horrible stuff. Other people say it's courageous and inspiring. So there are both sides.'
Mariam now travels with a circus as the bearded lady act, which she says she enjoys since she has studied acting in the past and also likes educating people about the issue.
Mariam, who has been single for a decade, also says she is looking for a relationship now that she is feeling sexy and more confident. She told Holly that even if she could she would not change her situation.
'I know myself more now,' she said. 'There are always people with a fetish who might only be attracted by the beard, but that is the same with lots of things, even if I were a blonde woman.
'I tried electrolysis three times but it just grew back - and now I'm happy with it. It is sometimes annoying when I go shopping but otherwise it has given me other opportunities.
Dr Cooper explained that it is fairly common for women to have facial hair they do not want, but if it comes on suddenly - especially if accompanied by other symptoms such as weight gain and irregular periods - you should see your GP since it could be to do with excessive of androgen hormones.
It's estimated that one in ten women suffers from excess facial and body hair. But what causes it?
据估计，有十分之一的女性受到面部和身体毛发过多的困扰。
'Sometimes race or just a family tendency to be more hairy is to blame, rather than any medical problem,' explains Dr Rina Davison, an endocrinologist from Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, with a special interest in excess hair.
'People of South Asian or Mediterranean descent tend to have more hair than Caucasians or those with black skin, for example. It's also possible to be quite a “hairy” family regardless of race.'
顶上去造福大家
按照微民网标准不是10分么。。。胸大。。。 好凶的莎士比亚。。。 还真有点像诺维斯基
