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Rachel Ama on loving her hair
Growing up with gal-dem
English - December 24, 2020 10:48 - 40 minutes - 92.9 MBPersonal Journals Society & Culture Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode, gal-dem talk to chef and influencer Rachel Ama, who discusses motherhood, hair and food. Rachel shares an extract from her younger years, disclosing the pressure she felt to manipulate her hair with relaxers and heat in order to appear ‘presentable’. Rachel speaks her journey of self-love with her hair and how thinking about what she put into her body on the inside, made all the difference on the outside.
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