-: It wasn't really advice as much as it was something
that I had been taught all of my life,
that was reinforced much of my adult life,
and I was given advice to continue doing.
And it was to straighten my hair.
Something that everyone did.
It was part of the culture.
You wanted, at the time it was...
You wanted to look Halle Barry.
And I went along with it.
My parents had told me that that's your gateway to beauty
and I believed them.
And now, I'm enjoying my natural hair.