Drea de Matteo Reveals She Doesn't Shave Her Armpits (But Had to on Set of “The Sopranos”)

In a podcast interview, the 52-year-old actress said that she "sometimes" shaves for photoshoots but doesn't "have that much hair anymore, I'm old"

Drea de Matteo is all about embracing body hair.

The 52-year-old actress opened up about her grooming habits in a new interview on Not Today, Pal podcast, which is hosted by her Sopranos costars Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler.

De Matteo, who portrayed Adriana La Cerva in the hit HBO crime drama, shared that she doesn't usually shave her armpits but did for the role.

"They would make you shave it for the show?" Sigler, 43, asked De Matteo.

"I would shave for the show," she replied.

The actress added, "I shave sometimes for my photoshoots and sh-t. But I don't have that much hair anymore, I'm old."

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The conversation around shaving began after Iler, 39, said that he was "in love" with De Matteo when they were filming the series, but he didn't like that she didn't shave her armpits.

"People always thought I was in love with her [pointing to Sigler]... they didn't know I was in love with you," he told De Matteo.

He continued, "We had one issue, me and you, and it was that you didn't shave your armpits."

"Oh I still don't," the Sons of Anarchy actress replied.

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"I know and it's a big f---in problem," Iler joked, recalling that he could often see Matteo's armpit hair because she wore "the craziest shirts of all time that were like, barely there."

During the interview, the group also discussed Matteo's OnlyFans account, which she previously shared "saved" her life when her house was in foreclosure.

"At the same time, I lost my mom, and my other mom, who has dementia, had run out of money for her caregiver. I didn't know which way was up," she told Daily Mail in February.

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Matteo said that within "five minutes" of uploading photos to the adult platform, she made enough money to pay back her real estate company, which kept the sale of her home.

"It saved us. OnlyFans saved my life, 100 percent," she continued. "I can't believe I'm saying that, but it really did save us. Anybody that wants to condemn me and put me down, go for it. I just hope you never find yourself in the position I was in to take care of two little kids."

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