Afrobella: …to so many people, they look at your and they brand you as an icon that speaks to their particular experience. So to so many women, you’re considered a natural hair icon, or plus size icon and now you’re in a period in your life where you’re changing. How is that, and how do you feel about being seen that way by women and how do you feel about your hair and your beauty and your evolution that we’re all getting to see right now?When it comes down to it, if you ask me just because a celeb is natural, unless they come out like ooohhhh say Kim Coles did you really cant blame them for changing their hair style. I mean really when it comes down it its their hair and who are we to get brittle about what these celebrities do and don’t do with their hair. Another way to put it is, you wouldn't want anyone telling you how to do your Natural Hair journey and if you decided to go back to perming I would think you would be a little irritated if everyone was jumping on you about YOUR hair as if, if you don't have hair like them anymore they feel like they have no reason to hang in there. I don't that's just me. Don't get me wrong I realize that when things like this it means there is one less person repping for naturals but at the same time, its and it is what it is situation and there is nothing that we can do about it.
Jill Scott: Well I think that change is good, and its necessary. Typically when I go through something, I’ll always cut my hair off. And I’ll wear wigs, and I’ll wear weaves and I’ll wear pieces because I like fashion. I like style and its fun to me. I’m very much a girl and I don’t know. I wont say worried…I’m interested to see how people look at me as someone who’s lost 60 [lbs] and working on 20 more. I’m interested to see if they’ll still feel connected to me or not. I don’t know. I wasn’t trying to be the spokesperson of natural hair. I just like my hair. I like how it feels, I like how I look. I enjoy my culture and my heritage. I see my mother and my father in my hair and I enjoy that. But at the same time I’ve been natural for 20 years and it was time to change. And when I get bored of this, I’ll cut my hair off again.
All I gotta say is as long as her hair stays looking nice I could care less if she’s natural or not.
What do y'all think?????
Side Note: I will say this though, if she so didn't want to be a spokesperson for naturals why did she really go out and get a type 4a like wig and wear that on her album cover. Do you think it was because she just likes hair like she said, or do you think it’s because old habits die hard, and she just was having a I wanna be natural moment.
