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5 Bearded Ladies Who Defied Beauty Conventions by Nobody: 4:36pm On Apr 04, 2018
10 Helena Antonia

There is little information to be found about Helena Antonia, a bearded lady born in the 1500s, but her status and her role in the court of Holy Roman Empress Maria of Austria makes this mysterious bearded lady more than worthy of inclusion in this list.
Helena Antonia was a bearded dwarf who was valuable enough for her portrait to be painted as a member of the court. She was clearly dressed in the feminine attire of the time, and contemporary depictions of her show a full, dark beard.
Was she seen as a fully actualized woman and member of the court, or did she have more of a jester role? Whatever her status was, her feelings on the matter have been lost to the mists of time. Little but her portrait re

Re: 5 Bearded Ladies Who Defied Beauty Conventions by Nobody: 4:38pm On Apr 04, 2018
9 Julia Pastrana

The story of Julia Pastrana is one of the saddest, most heartrending tales of abuse and dehumanization in the history of showbiz.
Born in 1834 in Mexico, Pastrana was variously referred to as the “ape woman,” “bear woman,” “baboon woman,” or “the ugliest woman in the world” due to her uncommon features and hairy face and body. She has been posthumously diagnosed with generalized hypertrichosis lanuginosa, which accounted for all the extra hair, as well as gingival hyperplasia, which made her lips and gums thick and protruding.
Pastrana was an incredibly intelligent and accomplished woman. She spoke three
languages , and she could dance and sing opera with great skill. Plucked from a Mexican orphanage by the governor of Sinaloa, she was taken to New York to perform. Soon, she had a manager and was touring the world.
For six short years, she was the anti-belle of the ball, her accomplishments and skills made all the more incredible to the awed audiences due to their perceptions of her appearance. She married her manager and was soon pregnant with his child. The child inherited her hypertrichosis but died soon after birth . She soon followed him, dying five days later of complications from the birth at only 26.
Her husband then proceeded to display the taxidermied bodies of his wife and child as if they were mere museum exhibits rather than people

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Re: 5 Bearded Ladies Who Defied Beauty Conventions by Nobody: 4:40pm On Apr 04, 2018
7 Annie Jones

Annie Jones was born in 1865 to American parents, her beard already starting to form in the womb and visible at birth.
At just over a year old, she was dubbed “the Infant Esau” and exhibited by P.T. Barnum. After being offered $150 a week, which was a lot of money back then, Annie’s mother set up a home in New York with her daughter. Unfortunately, she was forced to return to her home in Virginia, and while she was attending to a family emergency, Annie was kidnapped by a local phrenologist. Luckily, she was found in upstate New York , and her mother returned, never leaving her daughter’s side again.
Annie became the Esau Child, and then the Esau Lady, and became a professional freak, traveling the world. She became an accomplished musician and enhanced her appearance by growing the hair on her head over 1.8 meters (6 ft) long. Annie was married twice and died at the age of 37. Surviving photos of her show a delicate, well-dressed woman with a luxurious growth of well-kept facial hair

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Re: 5 Bearded Ladies Who Defied Beauty Conventions by Nobody: 4:44pm On Apr 04, 2018
Vivian Wheeler

Vivian Wheeler was born in 1948. Unlike the other women in this list, Vivian was born intersex and had operations to change her genitals to reflect a more traditionally female presentation.
While her mother loved Vivian, her father just wanted the money he could make from her. From the age of five, young Vivian worked the
sideshows and sent money home for most of the year. On tour, she was taken under the wing of older bearded ladies, while at home, she was forced to shave. She did not like being forced to change herself by shaving.
As she grew, Vivian changed her name to Malinda Maxey and became a person of great faith. She was married twice and had two more long-term relationships with men, despite not being exclusive in her attraction to men.

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Re: 5 Bearded Ladies Who Defied Beauty Conventions by Nobody: 4:47pm On Apr 04, 2018
Harnaam Kaur


Harnaam Kaur is a bearded lady who is an Instagram star. Despite having a full beard from the effects of PCOS, Harnaam is now a bona fide Instagram personality and model.
You can’t look away from Harnaam, who splashes color all over herself with lipstick, a bright turban, and decadent, richly ornamental clothing and jewelry. Instead of hiding herself away, she adorns herself and puts herself out there. She is an example of positivity and variance in beauty in a world that so often expects women to look, weigh, and act a certain way.
Harnaan has overcome bullying from her peers and other adults as well and takes pride in the way she looks and the beauty that she exudes, which seems somehow enhanced by rather than marred by her luscious beard

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Re: 5 Bearded Ladies Who Defied Beauty Conventions by superstylisht(m): 10:40pm On Apr 04, 2018

Re: 5 Bearded Ladies Who Defied Beauty Conventions by folake4u(f): 9:40am On Apr 05, 2018
Funny how they're all accomplished women smiley.


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Re: 5 Bearded Ladies Who Defied Beauty Conventions by Radiants: 3:59pm On Apr 05, 2018
The Nigerian Lady nko? I cant remember her name...
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