And how does the presenter respond to these comments?

“I just want to say to them, get a grip,” Stacey says. “How can something completely natural and normal on my body be disgusting?”

Refreshingly, her attitude is one that more and more women seem to be adopting; a recent study found that one in four women under the age of 25 have stopped shaving their underarms. And Solomon’s own friends and family, both female and male, are completely nonplussed about her shaving experiment – after all, in her own words, “How weird would it be if my family gave a crap about how hairy I was?”

Adding that she is a “hairy girl” she says, “People probably think I’m less attractive now, but I don’t feel any less attractive.

“Shaving is such an effort and it takes so much time out of my day – I have to do strange yoga positions to get to the parts that I need, it’s a horrible task and I’m glad to be rid of it. The thing that bothers me most is how offended people are by hair – I can’t go out in a skirt because people will call me disgusting, so I do feel a bit limited in what I wear.”

Stacey took part in the experiment alongside her fellow Loose Women panellists, including Kaye Adams, Linda Robson and Nadia Sawalha.

Speaking to stylist.co.uk about why she wanted to stop shaving, Adams says, “Anything that breaks down the stereotypes of what a female is ‘meant’ to look like, feel like and smell like is worthwhile in my book.” And in response to the question of whether she was embarrassed to be seen with a bit of body hair, she adds: “I’d be embarrassed by being embarrassed. We need to get a sense of perspective here.”

Robson agrees: “There is far too much pressure, especially on young girls, to shave. I’ve not missed it at all and I’m going to keep it up.”

Stacey Solomon shatters stereotypes around body hair with intimate photos