Hi. I'm 14 1/2 and I started growing hairs around my nipples a few months ago. There's a complete circle on the left breast and nearly on the right. There are 46 hairs on the left and 29 on the right. They are dark and thick and some are quite long. I tried to pluck them out but it hurts. I am still developing. Will there be more? I'm the only girl in my class who has this. I don't want to look like an ape. the
Hi Cindy,
See your doctor.
It may indicate a hormone problem. They can run a simple blood test to determine why you are "hairy."
Good luck.
Hello, Cindy! Yes, it certainly is hormones, but there is not necessarily something wrong with them. It depends also on how you develop generally speaking. But if everything else is normal, it may just be that you'll have a few extra hairs. Anyway, you'll certainly not end up like an ape!! :) I am the same. I got my first hairs around my areolas during puberty, but I was younger than you, 12, maybe 13, but the major part grew at the end, when I was about your age, when I also grew most of my pubic hair. It hasn't changed I believe since then, except when I was pregnant. I've got a complete circle on each side and just like you more hairs on the left breast. I plucked them out at the beginning, but after a few years I let them grow. I counted them for you: more or less 120 left, 70 right, but my areolas are really large so it's not as bad as it may sound to you :).
I was same. Only girl in my class to have hairs around the nipples. It started when I was 13. They were long and dark. I had them removed by laser a few years ago, also below the navel. You can always do that if it gets bad. But 46 and 29 doesn't seem that bad to me. You'll be fine.
Hi girls. Can anyone of you not scare the sh*t out of me please!! I don't want hairs around my navel and I don't want to read that I can have up to 120 around my nipples!! I(ve got very small nipples and they are already surrounded by hair. And you tell me it will get worse a lot worse. thanks!! Is there anyone out there who knows how to stop the hairs from growing. Since I wrote last time I've got one hair growing between my breasts also!!! HELP!
Sorry Cindy, it was only that I have your condition myself and I passed it to our daughter. I'm 54 today and I've survived nipple and navel hair, she's 22 and only learning to deal with it. I suppose laser removal would be a possibility. Daughter has hairs all around her nipples but they only show when she wears low-cut bras. In a bikini they stay mostly inside. As for the navel she's got a trail from her pubic hair upwards which broadens below the navel. I don't think it's very bad, but she insists on plucking them out. But both of us don't have hairs between our breasts, so maybe your case will be worse, but it's only hair honey.
Are u kidding! They show! Youre so not helping me here! I could cry.
Cindy, hi. Sorry, but I can only confirm what you were told. If at your age pubic hair is only beginning to grow, you're kind of a late bloomer for that but if at the same time you've got hair around the areolas and between your breasts, you should be prepared to become quite hairy. I grew pubic hair form the age of 9 on, and breast hair started a year later. Both finished growing when I was 16. Unlike you I have large areolas and quite some hair!