'The Gilded Age's Denee Benton Reveals What Inspired Her To Shave Off Her Hair
justjared.comDenee Benton, one of the stars of HBO’s The Gilded Age, is opening up about what inspired her to shave off all of her hair.
The 30-year-old actress is featured in People‘s Most Beautiful Issue and revealed that one of India.Arie‘s songs gave her the confidence to ditch her tresses. Click inside to read more… Denee explains that she chopped her hair off before her sophomore year of college at Carnegie Mellon University, and it was India.Arie‘s “I Am Not My Hair” which gave her the confidence to do so. “I had a relaxer my whole life.
And then the summer before my sophomore year I was listening to a lot of India.Arie and ‘I Am Not My Hair’ and I shaved it off,” she shared. Denee added, “Especially as Black women, our hair holds so much.
It can be such a source of shame. So to release that for the first time, it really made me feel like I was unstoppable. I felt sexy.” She continued on, opening up about her approach to beauty: “It really just depends whatever feels good to my soul.
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