Sheryl Underwood probably wishes she could take it back.
The comedian and actress incurred the wrath of natural black hair enthusiasts when she spouted negative comments about nappy hair on CBS’ The Talk.
Underwood, a wig-wearing co-host on the talk show, got in trouble when the group discussed model Heidi Klum’s revelation that she saves the hair of her sons, whose dad is the black singer Seal.
“Why would you save afro hair?” Underwood asks. “You can’t weave afro hair.”
She continued: “You never see us at the hair place going ‘Look, here, what I need here is, I need those curly, nappy beads…That just seems nasty.”
When white co-host Sarah Gilbert said that she, too, saves her kid’s hair, Underwood saw fit to add that it was “probably some beautiful, long, silky stuff.”
Read how Underwood's comments set off a firestorm of criticism from sources like The Root and blogs such as Bossip.
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