A woman has shared how she always aspired to have a full bush, but her sparse hairs meant she always had to clean shave – until she discovered the possibility of a pubic hair transplant
While having a lady jungle is a no-go for some, one woman longed for a full bush so badly she decided to get a pubic hair transplant.
Healthcare worker Sophia was in her late teens when Brazilian waxing was fashionable and women were opting for going completely hairless during the noughties.
Going back to the seventies, the mindset that a full bush was ‘unhygienic’ and out of fashion swept across the globe, and clean-shaven was considered more sexually appealing. This was perfect for Sophia, who was grateful for the trend which helped her conceal an ’embarrassing’ problem. “My pubic hair was always sparse and patchy. I couldn’t even have a landing strip because of it, so I was forced to constantly shave it all off. It was a big insecurity for me because it wouldn’t grow evenly, so it always looked bad. Even when I had a serious boyfriend I constantly shaved because I had bald spots. It was embarrassing,” she told Metro.
Shaving so much meant Sophia always ended up with painful ingrown hairs and she started to resent how much effort went into being clean shaven. She shared how she thinks public hair is “really sexy” and said you know you have something “cute going on” underneath your clothes.
She recalled how she tried “countless” methods to get her hair down there to grow properly – from beard oils and hair growth oils to biotin, but nothing worked. The healthcare worker wanted the option of being able to have a full grown bush one day, a landing strip another and then completely bare the next – by choice.
But even aged 35 she still wasn’t able to grow a full bush and, fed up of shaving the sparse hairs, decided to fork out £456 for eight sessions of laser hair treatments. But while her lack of hair wasn’t ever something she saw as a serious “medical problem”, she discovered pubic hair transplants.
“I thought ‘finally, something can be done’ it was like I was in charge of the issue at last. I definitely felt self conscious about needing a transplant in the first place – like why couldn’t I just have normal growing pubes? I didn’t tell any friends or family I was having it done, it felt super personal, so I kept it quiet.”
She booked into the Wimpole Clinic and was assured that wanting the transplant (otherwise known as a ‘pube plant’) wasn’t ‘weird’ and talked through the process, which detailed the cost and what to expect in terms of the procedure and recovery. Two months later, Sophia paid £5,000 for the procedure and said it was worth every penny – making her feel “much more in control and more confident.”
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