Let's talk hair — yours is kind of amazing.
"Well, I stopped eating meat for a few months, like for maybe six months, and my hair changed. For the worse. So, now I'm eating meat again, and I'm also using different products to bring the curl back."

Have you always worn your hair natural?
"I don't like that word, 'natural.' It's like a new thing. Natural. It's just your hair. No other race says 'Oh, your hair is natural.'

So you don't have any issues with girls who press or relax their hair?
"I think it doesn't matter. If you want to wear your hair straight, then wear it straight. I'll wear my hair straight, I'll flat iron it or get a blow out — one of those Dominican blow outs. But it shouldn't be your identity, like 'Oh, I'm a natural-hair girl.' I've been on natural-hair blogs, but i'm like 'No, I don't want to be put into that box.'"

It's funny, because we just interviewed Iman and she said basically the same thing — that she doesn't want to be considered a traitor to her race just because she wants to wear her hair a certain way. Do you agree with her?
"I totally agree. Just because it's an Afro, it's natural? What if I naturally had wavy hair? Does that discredit my blackness?"

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