Gearing up to shave for the first time in months, Drew Barrymore wasn’t expecting what would happen.
Early Monday morning, Barrymore took to social media to share her unexpected moment and how she handled it in stride with some humor.
Drew Barrymore’s Security Alarm Picked A Fine Time To Go Off!
“You cannot make this stuff up,” Barrymore, 48, began her video as a loud alarm going off in the background. “I was so excited. I was finally shaving after three months, but the house alarm is going off.”
Wrapped in just a towel and disbelief, with shaving cream visible under her arms, Barrymore admits defeat and tries to discover the problem.
“Well, that bath is just over,” she said as the camera panned over to the cold bath water in the tub. “I did get to shave, though. Under absolute stress and duress, and panic, but I got it done. So, jokes on you, house alarm.”
The actress shared her oddly relatable video on both Instagram and TikTok, where her followers tweeted about her exciting Monday morning. The video quickly received more than 90,000 likes and thousands of comments on Instagram and more than 215,000 views on TikTok.
“Why do I love that you just have a regular bathtub and not a 1000 ft.² bathroom?” one Instagram follower wrote in the comment section. “Not that it helps, but you’re an absolute goddess for posting this 😂❤️ #spiritanimal,” another added.
Many other followers also commented on the average-appearing bathroom and the beautiful makeup-free look Barrymore shared in the video.
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“She’s so stunning, and her bathroom is so… normal??!! I was expecting some gigantic freestanding tub embossed with gold or something,” one person wrote.
Another added, “Bless you, woman. We love you so much! Thank you for being real, raw, and transparent. You are magical, and we are grateful for you ❤️🙌🤣🤣🤣 dang house alarm.”
Of course, some people wanted to know exactly what she hadn’t shaved in three months. “Ok, sorry I gave to ask 😂what the heck haven’t you shaved in 3 months? 😂
Comments on TikTok were similar, pointing out her “normal” bathroom and beautiful fresh-faced appearance.
Drew Barrymore Recently Talked Openly About Dating During Perimenopause
Barrymore’s no stranger to sharing her relatable life. She’s often sharing things on social media that many are appreciative of. She recently spoke openly about dating while going through perimenopause during a panel alongside Oprah Winfrey, Maria Shriver, Dr. Sharone Malone, Dr. Heather Hirsch, and Dr. Judith Joseph.
“There’s something in that stigma that I don’t want you to think I’m some dusty, old, dry thing. That’s not the image I want,” she explained, hesitating to tell a recent date about the panel’s topic.
“I feel very confident, normally, and I want to be myself and present myself. But at that moment, I thought, I have to tell this story because it was a real-life experience; I’m so proud to be here. I’m an open book. But in that one moment, I was like, ‘I don’t want to say what it is because I’m engaging in someone who I want to see me a certain way.'”
Barrymore noted that she would like to “rebrand” menopause and how people think about it.
“If Mark Zuckerberg could rebrand Facebook to Meta, maybe we can do this for menopause. Because we’ve got the word men-o-pause. Pause is a natural stop. To a lover, there might be something repellent about that subject. ” I find this subject taboo with no one else,” she said.
“You’re just that dry old bag when you talk about menopause. And that is the conversation, the stigma that has to change. We have to make it funnier, sexier, and safer.”
