Captioned “Crown Act Be happy with your crown #iamnotmyhair #hairjourney,” the video begins with Pinkett Smith recalling how she’d had some “particular hair regrets” and saying “being a Black girl and coping with hair in Hollywood, within the period I got here up in, having your hair look as European as doable was at all times the factor.”
“And that was actually difficult, you already know, as a result of I appreciated my hair out wild and curly,” she mentioned. “However no person wished that.”
As a substitute, the “Matrix” star mentioned she must fashion her hair in ways in which did not “really feel pure” as a result of she was “attempting to play the sport” in Hollywood.
For journal covers, the request would typically be for Pinkett Smith to have her hair “straight and flowy” which was “probably not what my hair likes to do.”
“So I needed to be taught to get the braveness to go, ‘Nah, I am not doing that,’” she mentioned. “Which is why I really feel the liberty right now — I do not give two craps what folks consider this bald head of mine. As a result of guess what? I find it irresistible.”