Viola on Why She Stopped Wearing Wigs 

"I stepped into who I was" Powerful.

She's so much more stunning with her natural hair though. In that comparison pic, she's literally glowing

Black woman don’t need wigs we are gorgeous on our own.

I love how she said that she still loves wigs and she will put one on every now and then but NOT because shes hiding her hair,or her authentic self but because she has that choice to do with her hair what she wants!

Her real hair is so much more beautiful than all these wigs! I just love her like this!!!

When she showed up at the Oscars with her natural hair I thought she looked simply stunning. Beautiful. You step into yourself really well, Viola.

Viola’s face when he’s talking 😂

I really hated those wigs that she was wearing. Now she's that Beautiful Sista, I always wanted to see!

I think she looks great with her natural hair. If most African-American women embraced their natural hair, they would bring the Asian dominated black hair market to it's knees.

*Ah, the beauty you become when you realise who you truly are and let it show.*

I tell my wife, when she wears wigs, they hide her beauty! My wife looks so pretty with her natural. Viola looks gorgeous!

"I felt like I was apologizing for who I was." - powerful statement!!!!!! As we step into our truth our light becomes a warm fire for others.

She's not pretty, she's beautiful.

u can tell Viola lived a hard life not just from listening to her interviews. She takes her acting very seriously!

*“I stepped into who I was.”* Exactly how I felt going back natural. So strange when I couldn’t even remember what it looked like before relaxing it. Now I can’t imagine myself with straight hair without feeling weird. I know it’s ‘just another style’, but I honestly can’t relate. I just feel more confident, more myself with my natural hair.

She's so pretty like a doll. Looks so much younger without it

I am just in love with this woman...embrace your dark skin and curly hair....

Look I'm an African American women who doesn't wear weaves. But I also respect those who do. I'm just gonna need my black queens to wear their beautiful hair natural more often .👸🏽❤️

I think she’s absolutely stunning and she rocks her natural hair well.

She is one hell of a woman. Absolutely love her. Her presence on screen is magnifying, she holds her audience.

She looks so much better without those horrible wigs! She actually looks younger.

Viola's enunciation is so lovely. I could listen to her all day.

Imagine being such a powerhouse actress and having to keep answering these questions about your appearance, so numb

I'm so over white people feeling like we have to explain why we change our hair ... it needs no explanation!!!

You can't love what you don't see and we rarely see ourselves as we are.

Davis is acting powerhouse no one really should care about her hair.. Some wannabe actresses their whole existence is about how they look real actresses work with their craft..and Viola Davis is a pro.

She is a beautiful black woman with her tight curly afro. Well done to her for embracing the African part of her. As a black British woman I have never felt like wearing white women's hair (not that there is anything wrong with it). I appreciate that some people may just fancy a change but I have been raised to be proud of everything about my African ancestry and I make no apologies because no other race apologises for how they have been created. God bless everyone reading this regardless of your ethnicity. Jesus loves you intensely 🙏

“I stepped into who I was” - so inspiring 🥰

I love this woman. she's one of the most intelligent actresses that I can listen to for hours and her eloquant response to a sensitive subject especially within such a stage was simply beautiful . . .

I LOVE her natural. It suits her face, makes her look younger. She is beautiful with her natural hair.

How humble she is, which makes her even more beautiful. True to herself and ethnicity 💜 Just lovely

I love Viola. I’ve followed her since I was a teenager. She has always been beautiful and stunning to me. Her and cicely Tyson are some of my favs.

She is gorgeous with her natural hair.

Honestly, Ms Davis looks her best right here, with her hair out. She looks stunning

She looks 90x better like this, also wigs make your hairline thin. The wig was not cute

When I saw Viola's hair on that red carpet I did my 'big chop' went natural and have not chemically treated my hair since. Though I have never worn a wig or extension I did chemically straighten my hair. Changed my life. I was 50 and was reborn. I saw a black dark skinned woman like me and I love her for it!!

she is more beautiful without a wig

Viola, this woman, with her illuminated skin. just beautiful.

Viola speaks from the heart and you can't help but feel it because it's soul-baring truth!

No one: Literally no one: White men/teachers: I'm wearing a weave right now.

When you embrace your natural textile, you don't want to mask it any longer.

She's sooo beautiful. Especially her hair!

Yes! Who we are naturally is more than enough!

She looks sooooo good with that her natural hair. The color looks great on her as well

I absolutely love her as an actress. I love her face, the sound of her voice, the classy way she carries herself and the intelligent way that she expresses her point of view. Definitely a fan of this lovely lady.

Woowww, I am not a black woman and have never used a wig but listening to this woman is really very inspiring. The 'embrace who you are' attitude is defintely what we all should do, regardless of our race and 'beauty issues'

I love when she said, I wanted to step into myself.🕊

AMEN! TO THAT! 😊 Grateful to say that God brought me into the reality just before the recent wave of everyone else. March 2007 my eyes 👀 opened and I made the conscious decision to let go of that false sense of self. My hair was permed and 21 inches long. I told my hairdresser to "cut it all off" it was her masterpiece. She thought I was just going through a phase. She convinced me to cut a little at a time because she said I might wake up the next morning traumatized. Each week, I ✂️ 💇‍♀️ a few inches after a wash. By the time I saw 2 inches of new growth (natural), I couldn't tolerate straight hair any longer. I cut the last 10 inches off at work, after taking a shower and washing my hair post working out at the gym. I remember clearly how I felt and what I saw in the mirror. I felt free. I realized I was in bandage of what I grew to believe "beauty" was. It felt like my body took a deep refreshing breath. My natural 😍 hair was so beautiful! and so was my face. I discovered right then that I have major "shrinkage" (tight coily hair). When I combed it out, that 2 inches was really 5-6 inches. When friends and co-workers saw me they thought that I was depressed and "let myself go" some even offered to pay for me to get a perm (🤔They were "black" females. Wow, thinking back at how delusional they were makes me smile with empathy 😊). I gotta share this on my FB. I love me som Viola. Thank you for the reminder.

Amen. Her self assurance will spread into the mind of other Blacks that are afraid of who they are. Thank you Viola.

Wow. She is so much more beautiful literally stunning as a natural beauty

She is gorgeous. Colonization and assimilation is over. ACCEPTABLE to be Black and beautiful💜💚❤

When I was 14 I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. My hair was damaged from chemotherapy and radiation. Every time I look at my natural hair, the parts that won’t grow I’m reminded of that very sad and painful time in my life. It been a real challenge feeling beautiful without make up and wigs. At the same time I want/need to embrace how and who I am in a natural state. I too want to step into who I am.

I'm a blonde headed white dude, and this woman inspires me. lol Love Viola. Watch her Broadway video performance in Fences. Search "Show clip - Fences - What about my Lif" You won't regret it. Amazing acting

I love how she has no bluff face. Everything, everything shows.

Yessssss i cut that darn perm out of my hair an im dealing with the real me i love wigs as well but on a daily im wearing my own natural texture hair an it alright! I wish more black woman would do that instead of putting so much money into chinese ppl hands who are racist against blacks

I love Viola, that’s my girl. She’s one of my favorites now.

It is hard being an African American woman and having people criticize us because our hair isn't straight and in order...you try to do something with our tangled and really curly and tight hair patterns. Until you step in our shoes and can not just wake up and have straight hair then don't judge. That is why a lot of African American women are going back natural instead of following the way society says we are suppose to look with straight hair. Those relaxers do burn our scalps lol. I LOVE BEING ALL NATURAL AND HAVE CURLY BEAUTIFUL HAIR!!

I love her hair -- I think she looks beautiful. Much love to her.

EVERYONE need to embrace who they really are quit trying to be something that you would never be

I love her so much. She’s been my favorite actress for a long time and this just makes me love her even more. She glows✨

MAN she looks better without wigs. OMG u look beautiful Viola. Work it honey. You should do next season of HTGAWM with NO wigs. u look awesome. i can c YOU and YOUR face now. SimplyGorgeous ;)

Viola Davis is speaking MY and so many other woman's TRUTH right now! I can't take it! I love her

I constantly shave my hair bald and wearing wigs these days is like putting on a hair hat...feels so uncomfortable to me. Now I will wear a wig once in a blue moon but chile I did that weave stuff in my 20s I'm over it now at 31 lol

I love him for spotlighting this issue. He is very aware and conscious of his own reasoning for asking her that question... Good for you Anderson Cooper, good for you.

And Viola, you're beautiful. Very beautiful. Inside & out.

Hair aside, her facial features are stunning. She's really beautiful!

This woman is strong and passionate and I’m here 2020 and a forever fan my Beautiful Queen!!

Viola's eyes and full lips are lovely alone. She's so beautiful.

she has a beautiful smile

Anderson kinda tried it with that joke.

I just love her voice! She can do no wrong in my eyes

For me...watching Miss. Universe 2019 did it...the scale really fell and I just felt so uncomfortable in a wig since then

It's actually so amazing to see Viola in this new look after having ''stepped into who she is,'' as she has said. I truly believe that she looks so much more beautiful with her new and natural hairstyle. I feel the same way, but the natural hair is so time-consuming, I'm only able to sport my natural (hair) look every now and then, but I'm confident that with time, I'll find a way that will work for me to make it feasible. There's just been so much real and natural beauty we've been hiding over the years.

Viola Davis is beautiful, talented, passionate, and incredibly smart. :)

She’s awesome. Good for her!!!!! I am an Ashkenazi Jewish woman with naturally curly/textured hair. I fought my natural hair for YEARS and didn’t know how to style it. Eventually I figured out how, and back then )in the 80s) there weren’t as many product options for hair like mine. I had a Puerto Rican client (I was a makeup artist) who said she used Luster’s Pink Oil to maintain her curls. From then on, my hair life was never the same. I started shopping the “ethnic hair care” aisle, and never looked back. Eventually, more products for naturally curly hair were marketed to non-black women, but for the most part, I’ve stayed in the ethnic hair care aisle... I also felt like I had “stepped into who I was” when I embraced my natural hair texture. 💕

This is EXACTLY how I felt after seeing Luputa in Black Panther. It was time to make black glamorous for ourselves. I’ve worn weave only a couple times in 4 years only as a protective ready to go style. Although weave is easier MOST of the time, eventually it felt like we changed our identities too often to fit in as “beautiful”. No one else can beautify our curls for us. This is an added inspiration. We are the only ones that can beautify what belongs to us. If not us then who?

She looks so much better this way, proud of her! Now it's my turn

Having been natural for some years now, it is one if the most freeing experiences of my life. I'm so glad I did it.

I absolutely love her look with her natural hair . She is and always has been , exceptionally beautiful.

When you start to embrace and love your natural hair, you won.

I have actually never seen her look more beautiful than the way she looks right now.

Gosh I love her

It’s only Black women who constantly battle our community and other communities to have the right to wear our own hair. We also have the right to wear wigs when we want to. I went natural before it was popular. I’m going to buy my first wig soon.

I like her hair color, and she has a very pretty face, and now with her natural hair shinning through she looks younger and true to her spirit. She is stunning. I love her skin, her skin glows.

Viola is awesome!!! She gladly admits to loving wigs but is still proud of who she is. And wig or not she's still Viola and she's still awesome.

She's a smart woman, that's why she makes the perfect Analisse!

Viola is GORGEOUS!! I like the color of her natural hair!!❤

That's right. Love yourself with or without the hair or make-up. I am so glad she talked about this.

Because of this look I decided to take off my weave a d dye my natural hair. Some renewed sense of pride has just come over me

She is Beautiful!

She is stunningly beautiful. Her skin, those eyes, those lips, and that hair. You go Sis ❤️

She's a beautiful lady and looks beautiful with her natural hair.

She is wonderful. Beautiful.Rock it lady.

I love this woman so much that words can't even describe. Whenever I listen to her interviews I feel so inspired. She's an incredible woman with raw talents 💞💞💞💞💞😍

She’s Gorgeous with or without a wig!!!

This hairstyle and the color is iconic! My favorite look on her!

What a NUBIAN she is. Sisters it's time you "STEP INTO WHO YOU ARE" , Actually YOU ARE DOING. BLACK GIRLS ROCK !

thank you sister, I stop wearing weave and fake hair I wanted to grow my natural hair. now I get so much hate from my own people but I don't care no more.

Viola Davis is genuinely stunning inside and out.

BRAVO AND ALL PRAISES....MS. VIOLA DAVIS....ALL PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH THAT HE KEEP YOU UNASHAMED ABOUT WHO YOU ARE!