According to the Family Reunion star, there have been moments in her career where she felt pressured to look a certain way.
“When I was a child, I was surrounded by European standards,” she revealed. “What society said beauty was, or what beauty was supposed to be, or what beauty looked like, is all based on that. So growing up, there were just no visuals or representation of someone who looked like me—Black girl with curly hair.”
“That negative relationship with my hair went on for a very long time,” she admitted, “until Instagram hit the scene in the 2010s. I started to see more girls like me.”
She continued, “There was this amazing community of curly girls, and just Black women celebrating all the various textures and colors of their hair at every age. It changed my perspective on what beauty actually was and how it could be defined.”
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