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Viola Davis is known for embracing the skin she was born in, and she’s bringing that natural beauty to the cover of this month’s Essence Magazine.
On the cover of the October issue, the 48-year-old Oscar-nominated actress rocked her natural hair pinned up in a pompadour and caught up with the magazine about the joys of marriage, love and motherhood as she tries to keep things positive for her husband, Julius, and their adopted daughter, Genesis.
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Inside, she dished on how she specifically prayed for an “older, emotionally available” God-fearing man from the South, and three weeks later, Julius came into her life and he took her to church on their first date. Because it was hard it was for her growing up in an environment where she was called ugly and having a mother with her own self-image issues, she also says that she loved that her husband was supportive of her natural beauty and he encouraged her to get rid of wearing wigs when she wasn’t on set. She also stated that she thinks we give hair way too much value in the U.S., and that it’s unfair that people will judge a mother based on how her child’s hair looks. [Beyonce is saying, “PREACH!”]
She raised a lot of great points in her feature!
Check out the highlights:
On Praying For a Husband
I asked for a husband who was emotionally available, someone who was older, someone who maybe had a family before. I like older men. Someone from the South. Someone who loves God more than he loves himself.
“I met my husband three and a half weeks later, an ex-football player from Austin, Texas. On one our first dates, he took me to church.”
On Only Wearing Wigs When She’s Working
I had to defend myself as an artist, but I found myself defending myself as a dark-skinned black woman in front of people who did not know my life. I took my wig off because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am.
On Parenthood
[It’s] five hundred million joys and a hundred million heartbreaks every single day.[…]My image of myself [as a youth] was in the mouths of young white kids calling me…ugly…and then going home to a mother who did not fully embrace her own beauty.
On Teaching Her Daughter to Love Her Hair
There’s not one woman in America who does not care about her hair. But we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we’ll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child’s hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.
She even said feels most beautiful when she hears her 2-year-old say, “You’re the best mommy! You’re amazing! You’re exquisite!” Aw.
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