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30.08.2022 / 23:23
Meghan Markle and Mariah Carey Bonded Over Caring for Their Natural Hair as Biracial Women
, and on the latest episode of her podcast Archetypes, the spoke to a woman who can uniquely relate to her journey: Mariah Carey.Markle told that the singer was “so formative” for her in a time when representation of biracial women in the media was so low, citing Carey as one of the first examples Markle saw of “someone who kind of looks like me.” She specifically cited the 1993 video for “Dreamlover” video, and Carey took the opportunity to reflect on her curly hair at the time, how it was perceived by the media and how it was a challenge for some hairdressers.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“People were saying girl-next-door, dadadada, because there was also this ambiguity about me, racially, that fed into that, and those curls,” said Carey on the episode, “The Duality of Diva,” which you can listen to . “They didn't know how to do my hair, because if it was a white hair dresser that had never dealt with textured hair, they would tend to do a different thing, and my hair would be like, you're not doing that.