Coco Gauff sends message to young Black girls after criticism over her hairstyle in Miu Miu photoshoot

Tennis celebrity Coco Gauff took to social media to reply to critics who registered their displeasure along with her resolution to rock her pure hair in a Miu Miu photoshoot.

Per PEOPLE, the marketing campaign images present Gauff, 22, selling Miu Miu’s Vivant purse. Gauff’s social media supervisor shot the images, and the Italian high-fashion model authorized them.

The tennis star, in a TikTok submit on Wednesday, defined that she did her “on a regular basis hair and make-up as a result of that was personally the purpose.”

“My 4C hair is sweet sufficient for a high-fashion model like Miu Miu to advertise considered one of their latest launches. So if my hair is sweet sufficient for that, then yours is sweet sufficient to do no matter you want it to do,” she added.

Gauff additionally said that she doesn’t go in for “slicked-back” hairstyles due to injury issues, and she or he determined to characteristic within the marketing campaign with a pure look. 

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The images present Gauff sporting a pink polo shirt and a blue skirt whereas flaunting Miu Miu’s Vivant leather-based purse. However critics advised that the 22-year-old’s hair didn’t meet the marketing campaign’s requirements, because it seemed unkempt.

Gauff, nevertheless, begged to vary.

“Minimal is gorgeous,” she said. “Do what you wish to do as a result of individuals are going to hate on you regardless.”

The 2023 US Open winner additionally despatched a message to younger Black women who’ve her sort of hair.

“To all of the younger Black women on the market who’ve kinky hair like me, do what you wish to do together with your hair,” she mentioned, per PEOPLE. “On the finish of the day, individuals who hate in your look and hate on the best way that you just look have one thing deeply insecure about themselves. The one motive individuals touch upon individuals’s seems, particularly individuals who current themselves of their most pure sense, have one thing deeply incorrect with them.”

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