Disney star Zendaya has opened up about her naturally curly hair. The singer and actress explains that growing up, she wasn’t at all confident in her look and was afraid to experiment with her hair because she was worried what people would think. She commented:
“Growing up, I wasn’t very confident in my curls. When I was younger, I was afraid to experiment with my look because I was worried about what people thought, but as I’ve gotten older and become more confident in myself, I just don’t care.”
She adds that other girls didn’t have the kind of hair she has, and so she felt confused about how to style it. She had to learn how to take care of it and turned to Youtube tutorial videos to figure out how to do the basics before her confidence grew:
“It wasn’t like the hair that girls around me had. And nobody really knew what to do with my hair. My mom is white and my dad is black – they have two very different hair types. So we learned how to manage my hair together, and I also watched YouTube videos to find easy styles to do. Obviously you want what you can’t have, so I wanted different hair than what I had, and it wasn’t until I got older that I learned you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.”
Zendaya says that it’s difficult for anyone to feel completely happy with their own image but she believes that it’s essential to learn about yourself:
“There is nobody out there that is completely, 100 per cent satisfied with every portion of themselves. And as you grow up, or as you grow older, you have to learn about yourself and you have to become more familiar with yourself.”
