{"id":96818,"date":"2025-07-10T06:40:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/bachelors-bekah-martinez-defends-not-shaving-for-7-years\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T06:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T06:40:03","slug":"bachelors-bekah-martinez-defends-not-shaving-for-7-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/bachelors-bekah-martinez-defends-not-shaving-for-7-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachelor&#8217;s Bekah Martinez Defends Not Shaving for 7 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><strong>Bekah Martinez<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t need the public&#8217;s rose.<\/p>\n<p>The former\u00a0<em>Bachelor<\/em> contestant, who competed on season 22 of the show back in 2018, has been known to speak up for herself. So when someone criticized her choice to grow out her leg hair,\u00a0the 30-year-old clapped back at the hate.<\/p>\n<p>Bekah, who has been engaged to <strong>Grayston Leonard<\/strong> since 2022, shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bekah\/p\/DL2wOM7PYzg\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">July 9<\/a> that she received a comment that read, <span style=\"font-family:'-apple-system' , 'blinkmacsystemfont' , 'segoe ui' , 'roboto' , 'oxygen' , 'ubuntu' , 'cantarell' , 'open sans' , 'helvetica neue' , sans-serif\">&#8220;Your face doesn&#8217;t jive with your hairy legs. Grey <\/span><span style=\"font-family:'-apple-system' , 'blinkmacsystemfont' , 'segoe ui' , 'roboto' , 'oxygen' , 'ubuntu' , 'cantarell' , 'open sans' , 'helvetica neue' , sans-serif\">must be grossed out.&#8221; In response, she got candid about why she&#8217;s made her choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:'-apple-system' , 'blinkmacsystemfont' , 'segoe ui' , 'roboto' , 'oxygen' , 'ubuntu' , 'cantarell' , 'open sans' , 'helvetica neue' , sans-serif\">&#8220;I started sneaking my mom&#8217;s razors in 3rd grade. I remember praying to God that he&#8217;d remove all my hair from the neck down. Family, friends, and even teachers and coaches would gently tease when any of my jet black leg stubble was growing out,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bekah\/p\/DL2wOM7PYzg\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">she explained<\/a>. &#8220;It was seemingly harmless but continued to reinforce that my body&#8217;s hair was wrong.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1419674\/bachelors-bekah-martinez-defends-not-shaving-for-7-years?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bekah Martinez doesn&#8217;t need the public&#8217;s rose. The former\u00a0Bachelor contestant, who competed on season 22 of the show back in 2018, has been known to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}