Michelle Obama on embracing her natural hair
for a panel talk that also included the musician H.E.R, Tina Knowles and Kelly Rowland, Obama touched on her hairstyle choices while serving as First Lady. She opted out of wearing braids, she explained, because she felt at the time that the American people needed first to adjust to having a Black family in the White House.
“We were the first. And I was like, first of all, they’ve got to get used to us,” she said. “When we did a fist bump with each other, they turned that into a terrorist act. Who needs the hassle?” Obama, who back then relied on straighter styles and wavy blowouts, used weaves and extensions to protect her hair from excessive heat styling."I had protective styles because you get your hair done every day and sometimes twice a day if you’re outside jumping jacks in the rain,” she said.
It's a heartbreaking sentiment, but not an altogether surprising one, given just how ruthless the media can be to women in the public eye – and especially to women of colour.Gilbert Carrasquillo / ContributorSince leaving the White House, Obama has been having fun expressing her personal style through both fashion and beauty, and has recently been spotted wearing a braided high ponytail, curly up-dos and long box braids.
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