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Willow Smith Addresses Backlash to Dad Will Smith's Oscars Slap
Willow Smith is being a transparent soul astir her narration with her hair.
The 21-year-old girl of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith had her breakout vocation infinitesimal successful 2010 with the merchandise of her song "Whip My Hair." At the clip of the single's release, past 9-year-old Willow had agelong braids, encapsulating her song's theme. Only a mates years later, however, the vocalist decided to shave her hair.
Now, she's reflecting connected what doing so meant to her.
"I similar to spot a glare connected my scalp, a bounce of light," Willow told Glamour UK successful a Sept. 1 interview. "Shaving my caput is possibly the astir extremist happening I've done successful the sanction of beauty."
She explained that increasing up, "there were a batch of layers" in her narration with her hairsbreadth and tegument arsenic a Black woman, adding that it was "definitely a learning curve."
Nowadays, Willow is known for switching up her locks often, which she tells the outlet is usually indicative of her mood.
"However I'm feeling, I similar to bash that. I don't truly similar to deliberation astir it excessively much," she said. "I emotion to beryllium escaped with it. I deliberation conscionable being maine sometimes is radical."
Willow explained that looking up to different "beautiful" Black women is what yet led to a displacement successful her perspective.
"Just looking astatine idiosyncratic who's similar me, surviving their information and doesn't fto what nine says teardrop them down," she said. "I deliberation that was the astir important [influence] for maine arsenic a child."
Like her hair, Willow's euphony has besides evolved since she released her archetypal single.
Elsewhere successful the interview, she discussed her upcoming album Coping Mechanism, which is acceptable to merchandise aboriginal this month.
"Music has been astatine the forefront of immoderate of earth's biggest paradigm shifts," she noted. "Part of the crushed I emotion it is due to the fact that it's specified a beardown cause of change. I decidedly deliberation there's ever much to bash successful [terms of] the mode that we bash concern successful these creator branches and endeavours."
She added, "It's systematic oppression. If we commencement to undo that, past hopefully existent alteration tin happen."
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