Gabby Windey Is Embracing "Full Bush Energy" Long After Summer Ends

Gabby Windey is everywhere these days: on your TikTok, winning "Best New Artist" at the Las Culturistas Culture Awards, and, soon, hosting Alex Cooper's new reality dating show "Love Overboard." Now, Windey's even staked out in your garden, waxing poetic about bushes and how to keep them full and lush.

Technically her new campaign with Miracle-Gro, a synthetic fertilizer and garden products brand, is about literal bushes that grow in your yard. But a recent ad on TikTok (in which she rocked a baby tee that reads "Nobody knows I'm growing a full bush rn") was not-so-subtly gesturing at that other kind of bush that grows between your legs.

Since coming out as a lesbian in 2023, Windey hasn't been shy about critiquing the patriarchy and its punishing beauty standards for women, including the hair that grows on our bodies. We caught up with her to talk all things body autonomy, body-hair-related turn-ons, lesbian icons, and how to carry the "full bush summer" with you all year long.

Popsugar: What about this particular moment makes you excited to be talking about body hair and women's bodily autonomy?

Gabby Windey: I feel like it's always important, and now, obviously with our political climate. But also, I feel like we're at a place to really receive it. It's like women, we are taking it upon ourselves to really talk about these things, to learn about ourselves, to realize how much society has affected us, and that we don't want to live under the man's thumb making decisions about how we like our pubes.

PS: Have any past partners made comments about your body hair, unsolicited?

GW: One time I was on an adult spring break in Scottsdale, Arizona, and there was this Zamboni driver. I don't even know where they found a Zamboni driver in Arizona. So weird. It's not known for its ice. But he had said something like, 'Oh, you missed a fur patch.' He said it in a funny way, I guess, and back then, I thought it was funny, but now I'm like, you don't get to comment on my fur patch or anything. You're lucky to even be within 20 feet of it.

PS: Do you have any personal turn-ons or turn-offs when it comes to a partner's body hair or their pubes?

GW: No, and I think that's why women are the ones who are being, like, this is full bush summer. Men get to have bushes all the time, and [women] don't complain at all. I think we're just way more accepting and don't have a standard of how men should be, whereas I think there's this societal thing where it's like, oh, women should be bald or whatever. But no, I've just honestly never thought about it. Even when I was dating dudes. I've dated all kinds of types of body hair.

PS: Do you have a pre-sex routine that has anything to do with pube care?

GW: No, we just do it. It's too much to think about, because when you're in the mood, you kind of have to take advantage of it. Like, sorry, we're adults — I'm not just getting freaky everyday. So when the time comes around that we're both in a place that we want to get it on, I can't be like, 'Oh, sorry, I'm gonna get in the shower.' Plus, I just know that we're enjoying each other emotionally and physically, so it just doesn't even matter.

PS: How does full bush energy compare to big dick energy? Are these parallel experiences?

GW: I think it just comes with a type of confidence that you're doing things for you and not for anybody else.

PS: Who are your favorite lesbians of history, and what kinds of bushes do you think they rocked?

GW: Sylvia Plath, she wasn't totally a lesbian, but she was giving lesbian. She had that famous blond summer where it was the best summer of her life and she went blond. So I wonder if she just took it downstairs, too. I imagine her having a bleach-blond bush. She's, like, up in heaven with a huge box-blond, overgrown bush, waiting for us with open arms at the gates.

PS: How do we carry "full bush summer" energy with us into the fall?

GW: Just keep rocking your bushes, ladies, and don't stop talking about it. Just because we're not wearing bikinis doesn't mean that you don't have to constantly be referencing your pubes and your bush. We have to keep the awareness.

The interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Emma Glassman-Hughes (she/her) is the associate editor at PS Balance. In her seven years as a reporter, her beats have spanned the lifestyle spectrum; she's covered arts and culture for The Boston Globe, sex and relationships for Cosmopolitan, and food, climate, and farming for Ambrook Research.