'I didn't want to look different – now I embrace my heritage and TOWIE fans love it'
ok.co.ukDani Imbert has opened up about her heritage and shared her “favourite DMs” that she gets from fellow mixed race and black girls.The 23 year old TOWIE star, who split from co-star Liam Gatsby earlier this year, is known for her stunning blonde curls and, while she sometimes straightens her tresses, Dani insists it isn’t to hide her Caribbean heritage but simply because she sometimes “fancies a change”. “Everyone was saying to me on Instagram ‘oh what would you look like with straight hair?’ so I decided to straighten it, and now I switch between straight and my curls just to try something different,” Dani shared with OK!.
Discussing her heritage, she went on: “I’m half St Lucian and, to be fair with you I might have felt [I had to hide it] when I was younger and at school, but I kind of grew out of that quite quickly. “When was in school everyone else around me had straight hair so I was just straightening my hair to look like everyone else, but as soon as I left school I started embracing my curls.” Dani added: “Me going on [TOWIE] and straightening my hair isn’t because I felt like I had to hide my heritage or anything like that, it was purely to switch it up for a bit of a change.
I love my hair and I prefer my hair curly to be honest with you.” Since joining the show last year, the 23 year old said she’s had a positive response from viewers.
Dani explained: “That’s what I liked most about going on the show and embracing my curls: having nice DMs from black or mixed race girls saying how refreshing it is to see a mixed race girl on the show and have their hair actually curly.
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