14 DAY TRIAL // There was a time when Madonna wasn't popular with the boys, let alone with male models as she is today. In her interview with Harper's Bazaar, the singer recalls being bullied in school for how hairy she was.
Madonna is featured in the latest issue of the magazine to promote her directorial debut, “W.E.,” but she also opens up to the magazine on some personal issues, like her upbringing, her current love life and trying to break the mold in showbiz.
Among other things, she reveals that she wasn't popular in school growing up – far from it actually. She was always picked on for being slightly hairier than other girls.
“The boys in my school would make fun of me. [They would call me] 'hairy monster.' You know, things like that,” the diva says.
Later on, when she went to high school, she already knew what was expected of her to be loved by boys, but she still refused to comply.
“And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn't fit into that,” Madonna says.
“So I decided I would do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, [or] to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits,” she says.
She believes that's part of the reason boys and, later, men didn't find her attractive, the other being that her good looks were too unconventional and thus undesirable.
“Straight men did not find me attractive. I think they were scared of me because I was different,” she says for the same publication.
In the same interview, Madonna also talks about struggling to make it in the industry as a woman, where boundaries and obstacles appear out of thin air.
Even when she was young and still to break in the industry, she noticed a difference in the way society treated men and women – and she refused to submit, she says, as we also reported a few days ago.