Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar this year, and on the day following the ceremony it was pretty much all anyone could talk about.
New memes were created and social users flocked in their thousands to express their joy at The Revenant actor's award after years of near-misses.
Such was the joy that even Kanye West took a break from Twitter rants and arguments to congratulate “our guy” Leo.
So when the History In Pictures social media account posted a celebratory throwback picture of Dicaprio with his mother Irmelin Indenbirken and father, George DiCaprio two days after the cermony, they probably thought it would be full of likes and comments like Kanye’s.
Unfortunately, most of the attention revolved around Indenbirken’s armpit hair, instead of the 41-year-old’s career achievement. Among the 102,000 reactions, half of the comments appear to be ignorantly body-shaming Indenbirken for not confirming to societal beauty standards and the other half appear to be sticking up for her.
Others just questioned why armpit hair was even being debated:
DiCaprio is famously close to his parents, his father was seen sat alongside him at the UN Climate Change Summit in Paris last year while his mother is often who he chooses to accompany him to award ceremonies.
Indeed in his acceptance speech at the BAFTAS he paid tribute to his mother when receiving his Best Actor award, telling the audience: “I would not be standing up here if it were not for this person. I didn’t grow up in a life of privilege, I grew up in a very rough neighbourhood in east Los Angeles and this woman drove me three hours a day to a different school to show me a different opportunity.”
