Don’t dare change my hair! Oscar star’s fury at Grazia
AN Oscar-winning actress has accused a magazine of altering a picture of her hair to fit a ‘Eurocentric notion’ of beauty.
Lupita Nyong’o, who grew up in Kenya, appears on the front of this month’s Grazia.
She said being featured on the cover ‘fulfilled her’ but she was disappointed the magazine had ‘smoothed’ out her hair to ‘fit their notion of what beautiful hair looks like’. The original photograph features her natural hair, which is tied back, but this is edited out for the cover photo, which shows her with what looks like a buzz cut.
Miss Nyong’o, 34, who won an Oscar for 12 Years A Slave in 2013, tweeted: ‘Disappointed that Grazia UK edited out and smoothed my hair to fit a more Eurocentric notion of what beautiful hair looks like. #dtmh [don’t touch my hair].’
Grazia UK apologised and said it had not asked the photographer to alter the image, and was not aware it had been.