Gym + Sweat=Bad Hair...For Black Women, it Doesn't Add Up

 

A nice body plus hard work sometimes equals bad hair, for black women.  Black women tend to be discouraged from going to the gym because of the effect that it has on their hair.  As someone who works out three to five times a week, the hair in the middle of my head has been destroyed significantly because of constantly pulling my hair in ponytails to make it manageable.  "I don't know how much more of the gym I'll be able to take because it is destroying my hair," you'll hear me say.  Unlike their white counterparts, black women who frequent the gym have to choose between the appearance and health of their hair and fighting obesity, being fit.  For many black women it isn't worth the sacrifice.  Click Here For More

KELLY CAN’T FIND TRUE LOVE, AND SHE BLAMES HER DAD

Kelly Rowland blames her tumultuous relationship with her alcoholic father for her unsuccessful lovelife.

The former Destiny's Child singer was engaged to American footballer Roy Williams, but called off the wedding just months after she accepted his proposal in 2005 - and has been looking for true love ever since.

She insists there's a link between her estrangement from her father Christopher - who she and her mother fled from in her youth - and her pursuit of the wrong type of men.

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Picking up Bad Habits from Our Frenemies: Black Girls Getting Eating Disorders too

That wasn't always the case. The cover of her new book, 'Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat,' tells it all. Jagged black scribbles cross out a childhood photo, which is set against the backdrop of a stark yellow cover. But the most striking image, also on the cover, is of two fingers-the index and middle fingers-both used to induce vomiting by sticking down the throat.

They symbolize bulimia, which is characterized by binge eating and purging either by throwing up, laxative abuse or over exercising. A compulsion, it is usually done to numb feelings of anxiety or pain, experts say.

"My childhood picture is crossed out because it's about my self-loathing phase,'' she says in a reflective voice in a telephone conversation from her home in Los Angeles. "The two fingers, well, they are about bulimia. It resonates for me.''

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