Bo Derek is looking back at her headline-making cornrows. While speaking to Variety about her documentary “In My Own Words”, the “Bolero” actress spoke of wearing the braided hairstyle during her early career. “I get in trouble for it now,” she recalled. “I get a lot of criticism for being a culture vulture, that I’m being insulting and even worse, hurtful to African American women that I copied their hairstyle.” According to Derek, the reaction to her hairstyle then was very different to how people look at cornrows now.
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