These bearded ladies are breaking beauty standards and challenging ideas of what women should look like

For years she was made to feel like a sideshow circus attraction. Because of her excessive facial hair, she was bombarded with abuse and called all sorts of names – a man, a beast and an ogre.

But after ditching shaving creams and waxing treatments she made the brave decision to leave her beard as it is. And today Harnaam Kaur (31) says she’s never felt better.

“I’m happy living as a young beautiful, bearded woman. I’ve realised this body is mine, I own it. I don’t have any other body to live in so I may as well love it unconditionally,” she says.