'I want to be freed from the secret and the shame that that secret carries with it.'
Pressley, who, in 2018, became the first black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts, first noticed her hair loss in the fall when reinstalling her twists, becoming aware of patches of hair loss on her scalp. Then, according to her, "it accelerated very quickly," reaching the point where she was waking up to "sink-fulls" of hair in the morning.
“Every night I was employing all the tools that I had been schooled and trained in throughout my life as a Black woman because I thought that I could stop this. I wrapped my hair. I wore a bonnet. I slept on a silk pillowcase,” she shares in the video.
What was left of Pressley's hair fell out on a truly monumental day. It was the anniversary of Pressley's mother's passing; her mentor,, had recently died; and that very day, Pressley voted to impeach Donald Trump. "I was missing her. I was mourning my hair. I was mourning the state of our democracy," she explains. "...I didn't have the luxury of mourning what felt like the loss of a limb. It was a moment of transformation, not of my choosing.
she rocks along with her bald head. Our favorite? FLOTUS, because everyone wants to give off Michelle Obama vibes.
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