Hollywood has been enamoured with The Smiths for the better part of 15 years, thanks largely to the success of family patriarch Will.
However, the 2010 success of their then-9-year-old-daughter Willow and her single‘Whip My Hair’ saw
the youngster thrust into the spotlight – which, as we know, can be
extremely kind yet also scorching. And unsurprisingly, it’s the latter
that has angered mother Jada Pinkett.
The actress took to her Facebook wall earlier this week to slam the critics of Willow’s ever-changing hair-do’s. Her “open letter” below…
A letter to a friend…
This subject is old but I have never answered it in its entirety. And even with this post it will remain incomplete.
The question why I would LET Willow cut her
hair. First the LET must be challenged. This is a world where women,
girls are constantly reminded that they don’t belong to themselves; that
their bodies are not their own, nor their power or self determination.
I made a promise to endow my little girl
with the power to always know that her body, spirit and her mind are HER
domain. Willow cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth is
not measured by the length of her hair. It’s also a statement that
claims that even little girls have the RIGHT to own themselves and
should not be a slave to even their mother’s deepest insecurities, hopes
and desires. Even little girls should not be a slave to the
preconceived ideas of what a culture believes a little girl should be.
More to come. Another day.
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