Tia Mowry, 44, on why she will not cowl up her grey hairs

Tia Mowry is not ashamed of her grey hair. In truth, she’s embracing it.

In a brand new essay for InStyle, the Sister, Sister alum, 44, wrote about how she first discovered grey hairs in her 20s, and the grays “began to come back in heavy” in her 40s. Nonetheless, on the time, she stated she wasn’t “alarmed” by the change.

“I’ve all the time had this angle that it’s a blessing to get previous,” Mowry wrote. “There are such a lot of individuals every day that aren’t making it to the age the place their hair begins to grey. And so after I see my grey hair, it truly is a blessing as a result of it signifies that, sure, I am getting older and I am nonetheless right here. I do not take that calmly — I actually, actually do not.”

Nonetheless, whereas The Sport star was comfy in her choice to rock her grays with confidence, not everybody was a fan. She stated she was advised by individuals within the leisure business that she ought to cowl up her grey hair as a result of “ladies should not be seen that method.” Mowry stated that she fights that stigma by remembering that she defines magnificence in her personal method, noting that “magnificence is confidence, magnificence is feeling good about your self, magnificence is embracing your whole flaws and wonder is getting old.”

“The one factor all of us have in widespread as human beings is that day by day, we’re getting old. I believe we actually want to begin asking ourselves, ‘Why are we attempting to decrease or suppress the sweetness and the blessing of getting older?'” she wrote. “I need to change the narrative, and that is why I exhibit my hair the best way it’s.”

Mowry is not the one star who embraces her grey hair. Just lately, Felony Minds star Paget Brewster tweeted about bucking the stress to dye her hair, writing, “I like my grey hair. I’ve felt stress to dye it, fake to be 35 once more, no thanks. All of us have large points to handle, I do know. That is one small battle. However I believe all of us have small private battles. Let’s begin by being form to one another, even after we disagree.”

Maid actress Andie MacDowell echoed the assertion in an interview with Folks.

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“Throughout COVID, I may see the roots with my face and with my pores and skin and my eyes, and I preferred it. I felt that I’d be happier. And I’m happier,” she advised the journal. “I actually prefer it. I am 64, and that is the time of my life. Ultimately, I will be silver. And I needed to have this expertise of feeling what it’s.”

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