Friday, March 29, 2024

‘Today’ Host Sheinelle Jones Admits She Was ‘Really Nervous’ to Embrace Her Natural Hair on TV [VIDEO]

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*Sheinelle Jones of the “Today” show is speaking out about her journey to embracing her natural hair on national television.

Jones typically wears her hair in a blown-out style while on the show, but lately she’s been wanting to rock her naturally curly hair, PEOPLE reports. 

“I have always wanted to try wearing my hair in a natural hairstyle on the show, but I didn’t know how to do it,” Jones, 42, said in an essay published on Today.com. “In our business, the demands of having our hair styled every morning can be a bit tough, so it never seemed like I had time to figure it out.”

Jones has been hosting the long-running morning show remotely from her home amid the coronavirus pandemic, so she decided now is the perfect time to switch up her hairstyle.

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With the help of celebrity hairstylist Takisha Sturdivant-Drew, Jones filmed herself styling her natural hair for a “Today” segment.

“We video chatted and [Takisha] walked me through what’s known as a ‘twist out,’ a method of twisting hair piece-by-piece. You can watch our chat and her full tutorial on the 3rd Hour of Today [see clip above],” Jones said.

Check out the clip via the Instagram video below.

Jones said she “found the process of twisting little pieces one at a time a tad tedious”  but also admits it was “therapeutic at the same time.”

Adding, “And I have to be honest: When I took out the twists Monday morning, I was really nervous!”

But she’s “glad” she “took the jump,” as Jones is loving her new hairstyle. 

“I realized, particularly as an African American woman on network news, it’s not something you see often — and it’s definitely a ‘step’ that is long overdue for me personally,” Jones said of seeing women with natural hair texture on television. “I felt obligated to call my executive producer before I went on-air — just to let her know that I was a bit nervous — and when we FaceTimed, her eyes lit up. She told me she loved it.”

Jones said she plans to put her curly hairstyle into “the rotation of styles I like to wear throughout the week.”

“I’m still trying to perfect it,” she wrote in a post on her IG account (see below), adding “I wrote an essay about why I feel it’s so important.” 

You can read her essay here

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