Sunny Hostin Praised for Her Pure Hair on ‘The View’

Sunny Hostin is pleased with her curly hair!

Throughout the Tuesday, April 30 episode of the Behind the Desk podcast with The View govt producer Brian Teta, a caller praised the daytime speak present host for embracing her pure hair. 

“I’ve a query for Sunny. I’ve liked you on the present because you began, and I believe some of the putting variations that I observed is the best way that you just look,” the caller started.

“Your hair is totally different and delightful, and you’ve got kinda switched from extra of a standard enterprise informal to what I might describe as simply wow,” the caller continued. “I’m 25 and I’ve simply began to embrace my curly hair as a Black girl. So, what impressed you to make this variation?”

The caller additionally admitted that from her personal expertise, sustaining pure hair will be “quite a lot of work.” 

“Oh, I really like that query, and I really like that she observed,” Hostin responded. 

The tv persona revealed that firstly of her profession, it was frowned upon to put on her hair in its pure, unaltered state.

“You already know, I used to be instructed, early in my profession as a lawyer that curly hair didn’t look skilled and that it seemed unkempt. And so I spent years sort of carrying this slicked again ponytail. Proper? It was kinda curly within the again, however probably not, and I might slick slick my hair again,” Hostin mentioned. 

She added that when she made the swap from courtrooms to working in entrance of the digital camera, issues hadn’t actually modified a lot.

“After which once I began doing tv, there was in the future the place a stylist satisfied me to blow out my hair, which could be very damaging for girls which have curly naturally curly hair,” Hostin mentioned. 

She then defined how listening to her boss’ response impacted her view of herself on the time. 

“And so I did that, and, I bought a name from an govt at CNN, and that particular person mentioned, that is your look. You look so skilled. So there it was once more, that skilled skilled. And I actually simply thought that I needed to look a sure solution to make it.”

In accordance with Hostin, it wasn’t till the pandemic when she didn’t have a glam squad that she was capable of revert to her roots. 

“After which the pandemic occurred. And I do not know the best way to do my hair another method however curly,” Hostin instructed Teta of her not-so-new magnificence routine. 

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The outcome was her inspiring others. 

“I used to be left to my very own gadgets. And, I bought such a optimistic response from so many individuals, together with, like, on-air expertise that mentioned, ‘You already know, I am gonna put on my hair curly as effectively,’” Hostin mentioned. 

“I bear in mind Sheinelle Jones from NBC reached out to me. Shirleen Alicott from ABC Information Native reached out to me, and, they mentioned, ‘You are giving me the braveness to do it,’ and that meant so much to me.”