19-year-old female law student in Nairobi shares her struggle of having beards ▷ Kenya News

- Faye Lilian grew up just like any other little girl with big ambitions

- However, her life took a different turn when she started growing beards at teenage

- She felt humiliated and tried all possible solutions to stop them but all that did not work

- Faye later accepted herself and she is now pleading with the public to accept women with hirsutism condition the way they are

Born in 2000, all that Faye Lilian wanted in life to was to grow old as a pretty woman with fair complexion, smooth skin just any other modern lady.

However, her life took a different dimension when she started developing beards, contrary to her expectations and rules of nature.

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Faye Lilian, 19, is a law student at University of Nairobi. Photo: Faye Lilian
Source: UGC

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She never paid much attention to the developing beards given her mother also had one which she thought it was cute with her.

It was until in her high school years that she started feeling it wasn't a good thing for her.

"One day in high school, my desk mates told me, "Faye, you are growing beards!" I felt humiliated, I mean do women grow beards these days? So I laughed it off and went on to say, "I am just a rare species!," she said.

Despite the consolation, deep inside her she was so crashed especially with the thought of the idea that she would not be attractive.

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Her friend's comments were a wake up call, she immediately rushed to the washrooms to check out how they were growing.

At one time a man tried to pluck her beards telling her women were not supposed to have them. She shared the ordeal with her mother who in turn told her not to worry, but, being a teenager her advice was far from reality.

"I concluded I was going for tweezing. The saloonist however, confirmed that they were not yet ready for tweezing. I was to get back after a week. That was a few months ago and when she did say that, I had to convince myself that I was strong to evade people's scrutiny," she narrated.

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Being a millennial, she went online looking for all sorts of advice on how to control the male hormones that were apparently manifesting in all its forms.

Within no time she had developed a deep voice, she says the only thing she lacked were male genitals.

With time, the law student learnt to accept herself and stopped bothering about her physical appearance. However, she confesses it is something that she grapples with up to date especially when appearing in public.

Faye is now appealing to the public to always see them just like any other women despite their unique features, it is not their fault.

"I never really chose to have hirsutism (beards) but then I do hope people will stop viewing women who grow facial hairs any differently. It ain't our fault... therefore for such women out there, you are strong, beautiful and magical," she said.

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