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NOVEMBER 23 - CLARE BOWEN
Australian actress Clare Bowen - known for her role as Scarlett O'Connor on ABC’s Nashville - surprised fans this month with a new look, chopping off her long, wavy blond locks to debut a much shorter pixie cut. While Bowen, of course, isn’t the first woman in entertainment to get a major haircut, it’s the message that came along with her change that really mattered.
She explained in a November 11 Facebook post that she was diagnosed with end stage nephroblastoma as a child. Her parents were told she would only have two weeks to live if she didn’t undergo an experimental (and potentially deadly) treatment. She spent an extended period in the hospital, growing up around similar children who were “mostly bald, all tubed, taped, bandaged up and stitched back together”.
She reflected on her life as a survivor, writing that, “I look relatively normal on the outside, but on the inside, I am still the same stitched back together little creature, in a world where people are judged so harshly for the way they look.”
Then, she proceeded to explain what inspired her haircut:
“I was really inspired when I heard a story about a little girl who said she couldn’t be a princess because she didn’t have long hair, and I wanted her, and others like her to know that’s not what makes a princess, or a warrior, or a superhero. It’s not what makes you beautiful either. It’s your insides that count… even if you happen to be missing half of them.
“Every scar tells a story, every baldhead, every dark circle, every prosthetic limb, and every reflection in a mirror that you might not recognize anymore. Look deeper than skin, hair, nails, and lips. You are who you are in your bones. That is where you have the potential to shine the brightest from. It is where your true beautiful self lives.”
Bowen went on to thank ABC and Nashville series creator Callie Khouri for allowing her to change her character’s hair, concluding with the following statement - “Self-esteem takes a lot longer to grow back than hair.”
Photo credit: Joseph Llanes Photography
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DECEMBER 20 - XUXA
Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel, commonly known as Xuxa, is a Brazilian television presenter, film actress, singer and businesswoman. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, English and Spanish worldwide. She is a two-time winner of the Latin Grammy for Best Children’s Album, and is also known for her epithet, “Queen of the Shorties”. Over her 30 year career, she has sold over 40 million copies of records worldwide.
Within that time, Xuxa has also taken part in a wide variety of social activism campaigns, fighting against smoking, polio, poverty, climate change, child abuse and the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. Her work with the Xuxa Meneghel Foundation has earned her many awards and honors.
Xuxa was the first Brazilian to appear on Forbes Magazine’s list of richest artists in 1991, and as of 2015, she continues to be among Brazil’s most prominent celebrities with the highest net worth of any Brazilian female entertainer - estimated at $350,000,000 US dollars.
Portions of today’s post were taken from Wikipedia. Please consider donating a few minutes to make a submission to Celebrate Women before the year is over.
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Caroline Louise Flack was a popular English media celebrity, but who commited suicide at the age of 40 on valentines day 2020. She was born in Enfield north London, an was a television and radio presenter. She began her career as an actress, starring in Bo’ Selecta! (2002) and presented various ITV2 spin-off shows such as I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! NOW! (2009).
She won the 12th series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2014 and the following year began presenting on series such as Love Island and The X Factor. In February 2020 she was found dead at her home in East London, with the media reporting her death as a suicide.
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