A brave woman who has suffered all her adult life with excess facial hair today (Dec 2) waxed off the moustache which she grew for 'Movember'.
Christine Gurney, 54, has always been self-conscious about the thick hair that grows on her upper lip and chin.
Chrissy has either shaved every day, sometimes twice a day to avoid ‘5 o'clock shadow’, or had a painful wax once a week for the last 30 years.
She vowed to let her facial hair grow out for 'Movember' to raise awareness of men's mental health issues - and to break the stigma around women with facial hair.
FUNDRAISER: https://uk.movember.com/mospace/15191873
Christine Gurney, 54, has always been self-conscious about the thick hair that grows on her upper lip and chin.
Chrissy has either shaved every day, sometimes twice a day to avoid ‘5 o'clock shadow’, or had a painful wax once a week for the last 30 years.
She vowed to let her facial hair grow out for 'Movember' to raise awareness of men's mental health issues - and to break the stigma around women with facial hair.
FUNDRAISER: https://uk.movember.com/mospace/15191873
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00:00What I think people should know about facial hair and women is that it's not always a medical
00:10reason why women have got facial hair.
00:14Me personally, I've never been diagnosed with nothing.
00:18It started in my 20s when a friend of mine said, I'll shave it, it'll be fine.
00:24And it's just got worse and worse and worse.
00:27The majority of women do have a medical reason for having excess facial hair, but then not
00:34all women do have that reasoning and we're just left in limbo because we don't know why
00:42we've got excess facial hair.
00:44So I decided to do this Movember challenge in memory of my husband.
00:50We were halfway through a divorce and the day our decree in ISI went through, we were
00:58on the phone as usual, video talking, and yeah, it was the following morning that I
01:05was told that he had took his own life.
01:08So yeah, I'm doing this in memory of my husband.
01:18Has this challenge been difficult?
01:20Oh my God, where do I start?
01:23It is, I'd rather jump 15,000 feet out of an aeroplane.
01:28I've done that twice.
01:30This is just so much harder on so many different levels.
01:35You've got people staring at you and school kids sniggering at you and they don't realise
01:43that I'm trying to raise money for a good cause.
01:46I'm not sure why there's so much stigma around women having facial hair.
01:52It's been around for so long, since time begun, and women were put in the circus as freaks
02:01and I don't think society as a whole has ever got past that.
02:07So I think women having facial hair is still such a taboo subject and people look at you
02:14so much differently.
02:18That hurts so badly.
02:31I would give men advice, if they're struggling with their mental health, to literally talk.
02:41Pick up the phone, phone the Samaritans, social media.
02:45We've all got that one friend on social media that we've never met but we talk to every
02:51day as if they're our best friend in the whole world.
02:56It's a cliche when people say, I'd rather sit up all night talking than attend your funeral.
03:04Trust me, it's true.
03:07I'd rather sit up all night talking than have to attend somebody's funeral through suicide.
03:14And I think November does a great job and it's an all year round thing.
03:21It's just not for the month of November.
03:24So guys, please, it's okay not to be okay.