--- title: Madonna Instagrams Photo of Herself With Long Armpit Hair description: Taking ‘Express Yourself’ to a new level canonical: https://time.com/33907/madonna-flaunts-armpit-hair-in-instagram-selfie/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-21T20:20:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:02.948Z og:title: Madonna Flaunts Armpit Hair in Instagram Selfie og:description: Taking ‘Express Yourself’ to a new level og:url: https://time.com/33907/madonna-flaunts-armpit-hair-in-instagram-selfie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Madonna Flaunts Armpit Hair in Instagram Selfie twitter:description: Taking ‘Express Yourself’ to a new level twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Madonna Flaunts Armpit Hair in Instagram Selfie by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Mar 21, 2014 8:20 PM UTC by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Mar 21, 2014 8:20 PM UTC Madonna, never one to dodge the spotlight, shared a snapshot of her ever-growing armpit hair with the hashtag happy caption: “Long hair…… Don’t Care!!!!!! #artforfreedom #rebelheart#revolutionoflove.” The hashtag #artforfreedom references her digital initiative that encourages artists to express creativity in a way that brings awareness to human rights violations, but the hair is clearly all her. The singer’s Instagram profile has been under scrutiny in recent months after she [posted a photo](http://entertainment.time.com/2014/01/06/madonna-instagrams-her-way-to-controversy/) of her teenage son with a liquor bottle and [captioned a photo](http://entertainment.time.com/2014/01/18/madonna-sorry-for-using-n-word-on-instagram/) with a racial slur. But Madonna’s nod to women deciding to go natural speaks to a growing trend in women’s health. Actress Cameron Diaz encouraged women to consider not shaving their pubic hair in her recent _Body Book_. And retailer American Apparel courted controversy after [featuring mannequins](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/17/american-apparels-mannequin-pubic-hair-more-stunt-than-statement/) with full-grown, visible pubic hair in a New York City storefront. While a woman certainly has the choice on one’s armpit hair, the harsh comments on Madonna’s snapshot prove this trend might not be growing along with her hair. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/33907/madonna-flaunts-armpit-hair-in-instagram-selfie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/33907/madonna-flaunts-armpit-hair-in-instagram-selfie/"},"headline":"Madonna Flaunts Armpit Hair in Instagram Selfie","datePublished":"2014-03-21T20:20:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:02.948Z","description":"Taking ‘Express Yourself’ to a new level","url":"https://time.com/33907/madonna-flaunts-armpit-hair-in-instagram-selfie/","keywords":["Living","Madonna","Instagram","health","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/33907/madonna-flaunts-armpit-hair-in-instagram-selfie/","name":"Madonna Flaunts Armpit Hair in Instagram Selfie"}}]}] ```