Cocoa Brown is an actress, author, and comic who’s finest generally known as Jennifer in Tyler Perry’s “For Higher or Worse” and her function as Lytia in The Single Mothers Membership. Along with her profession within the movie trade, she began a nonprofit charity referred to as Wigs of Love Lupus Basis to help ladies shedding their hair to the autoimmune illness.
Brown opened up about what it means to her personally and the way the group can help.
What impressed you to start out the Wigs of Love Lupus Basis?
Wigs of Love began as a result of I knew a whole lot of ladies who misplaced their hair with lupus, and since my girlfriend Vanessa, God relaxation her soul, misplaced her battle with mind most cancers. She finally embraced her bald head however for the longest I used to be throwing her wigs. I used to be sending her wigs as a result of she was so self-conscious about her hair falling out throughout her most cancers battle. When her daughter despatched me again all these wigs when she handed, I mentioned, “I’ve acquired to do one thing with these wigs.” I mentioned, “Effectively, why not give these to ladies who’ve misplaced their hair as a result of there are a whole lot of us who nonetheless consider our hair is our crown and glory, and it defines us.” That’s simply who we’re as Black ladies, whether or not it’s a bald head or weave all the way down to our ft, it’s one thing about once we placed on that hair or no hair that may be a image of our energy of who we’re. So, you recognize what I did for them, and I’ve accomplished this as my second time doing it, I gave them a Hollywood weekend. They’re picked up in a limo, they’re taken to a secret location, and they’re given a full Hollywood glam makeover with skilled make-up and a custom-made wig. We additionally gifted them a portrait of themselves, principally to say, “You might be lovely, you aren’t lupus, you’re greater than that.” It was an important occasion and it was all about them.
How can the group help you?
We’re doing issues year-round. … You possibly can go to wigsoflove.org, and you’ll try what we do, what we’ve accomplished up to now, what we’re going to do, and you’ll donate. It’s quite simple you probably have Cashapp, it’s $WigsofLove, and you may as well mail a test, the deal with is on there. We admire the whole lot, it’s a 501 3c nonprofit group and all the cash that is available in goes to those ladies and goes to the trigger. I don’t pocket a dime, OK? I want you to know that, OK? Cocoa Brown is nice, she tells jokes. This goes to the subsequent occasion that we’ll be doing. We’ll be doing one thing for Thanksgiving the place we [will] select two households who [have someone] within the household [who is battling] lupus and we [will] present them with their Thanksgiving dinner. We [will] take them to the grocery retailer at Walmart or wherever, give them a present card, and say, “now get what you want for dinner.” Then at Christmas, we additionally do a toy drive. We give toys to households who’re battling lupus, so we want your assist to make that occur.
