A Bearded woman! This word might seem weird to someone, who heard this for the first time in his/her life but it is a real-life fact for some ladies. A woman who can grow excessive facial hair is known as a bearded woman.

According to studies, out of each fourteen girl’s group, one has a female beard. Some ladies find it shameful to have the prominent beard they struggle throughout their life in hiding their beard secret. But there are some daring women who fought with their fear, they have not only revealed their deepest secret to the whole world but became the inspiration for other girls with a beard.

Most Famous Bearded Women

Here, you will come to know the lives of those inspiring ladies who proved that having a female beard is not shameful at all.

1. Vivian Wheeler

Beard is part of my body that’s why I don’t shave it.

Vivian Wheeler is a bearded woman who struggled a lot in her entire life. She was a hermaphrodite when born but doctors removed her male organs with the consent of her parents. Despite that, she continued to grow her female beard even at the age of five.

Her father used her as a money bank by sending her to circus shows for the sake of money, never realizing the troubles that Wheeler had to face. She performed in sideshows for many years. She also holds a Guinness book of world record for having 11 inches long beard as a woman. Vivian used to shave her beard for different events. She said, “I used to shave my beard because of the low self-esteem of people around me”. But after the death of her mother, she never shaved her beard but embraced it for her entire life.

2. Rose Geil

With a beard, I feel more confident, sexy and feminine.

Rose Geil, a girl with a long beard who first noticed her facial hair at the age of 13. At that time she had low self-esteem and kept this secret hidden even from her family. She used to wear full sleeves, awkward makeup, and dressing in hiding her excessive hair from her schoolfellows. Rose tried many treatments and taken various medicines in order to get rid of her beard, but then she realized that beard is actually her confidence.