I feel bad for those children. Can you imagine growing up under her????
To me, what would be embarrassing as a child is if my mother (no matter what color she was or what her hair looked liked) went on national TV to talk about my hair. Something about that is kinda messed up.
But I have lots of family members who think like her. Growing up, my mother, father, aunts, grandmothers, and great-grandmother seemed absolutely obsessed with hair. When I was 23, I traveled to a family reunion (didn't know about 90% of the family, and hadn't seen them in 10 years--was only going to appease my father).
My aunt called me EVERY NIGHT insisting I straighten my hair (I usually keep it braided and had originally planned to do so for the trip) and even arranged to have some lady do it for me and paid her. Not really the one for drama, I just sorta went along with it. She'd never been demanding before and was actually a decent person. Although in the back of my mind I was thinking, "WTH is she so concerned about what my hair looks like? She ought of be thinking about her own dang self!"
Ultimately, I feel as sorry for my aunt as I feel for this woman on the Tyra show. They're just trapped into this notion of physical beauty that NO ONE (no, not even people who don't have nappy hair) can ever live up to. Yes, and to say they've got self-hatred issues is an understatement.
We cannot ever expect society to love our nappy hair if we cannot first love it ourselves.
shaboom