Esther Calixte-Bea, 24, from Montreal, Canada, said she obsessively shaved during school and would be in tremendous amounts of pain as she attempted to rid her body of all its hair.
A 24-year-old Quebecer is on the cover of Glamour UK’s January issue.
Esther Calixte-Béa, known as Queen Esie on Instagram, is of Haitian and Ivorian descent and was born in Longueuil, on Montreal’s south shore. She’s a recent graduate in painting and drawing from Concordia University in downtown Montreal. And she’s on a mission: to shatter the taboo around women’s body hair.
“I had never seen a woman with chest hair on the cover of a magazine before,” she told HuffPost Québec. “And it’s me! I never thought I could make a difference!”
Posted: Feb 06, 2021 3:21 PM ET | Last Updated: February 8
Montrealer Esther Calixte-Bea was featured on the cover of Glamour UK Magazine in January.(Submitted by Esther Calixte-Bea)
Montreal artist Esther Calixte-Bea made a splash last month, appearing on the cover of Glamour UK magazine to share with the world something that used to make her self-conscious: her chest hair.
Calixte-Bea said, to her knowledge, she s the first woman with chest hair to appear on any magazine cover.
She told CBC s
Let s Go that she s proud to provide representation for women who embrace their natural body hair. I m happy that people get to see themselves and I get to see myself on that cover because, growing up, I never got to see someone that was as hairy as I am on the cover. So I m glad I got to be here for others.
What has the CUJAH been up to?
A glimpse at what the Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History has been working on
There’s no doubt that Zoom university makes it harder to engage in student life and feel like you’re a part of
something
. In an effort to make students feel more involved and aware of what student clubs are up to, we’ll be conducting a series of interviews with various student-run organizations.
The Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History (CUJAH) is a student-run association that aims to showcase the talents of Concordia’s Art History and Fine Arts students via the publishing of an annual journal and an art history conference.