Mo'Nique: 'Unshaven legs aren't news'

Mo'Nique has defended her decision not to shave her legs.

The actress was photographed at the Golden Globes earlier this year lifting up her dress to show her unshaven limbs.

"I've been in the business for 20 years and they're talking about this?" she said to The Times.

"Guys, if you don't like the hair on my legs you can look somewhere else. But because you're looking, there's something about it you like, but you don't want to say it out loud. For me, brother, I enjoy every inch of me, and if I begin to change it based on your opinion of me, that's when I go crazy."

Mo'Nique added that she tried shaving her legs when she was younger but hated it so much that she decided never to do it again.

"I only shaved my legs once," she explained. "It was when I was a teenager. It was the most painful thing ever. When it started growing back it was prickly. Sugar, I can't do it. I love it and my husband loves it."

She concluded: "All the s**t going on in the world - we're at war, Hurricane Katrina... and my hairy legs make the news. What about the homeless? Can we go to Haiti and keep that story alive?"