Me and Cameron Diaz

Before Christmas, Cameron Diaz went to visit a female friend and asked her to cut a little bit of her hair. There was some misunderstanding between the two and Cameron's hair went from long and luscious to short and choppy. Diaz said she"burst into tears. I started crying. I felt so vulnerable. For a woman to all of a sudden have no hair . . . oh my God!" Her friend felt horrible about it. Diaz said that they both were crying by the time it was over, but that did not change the fact that her hair was super short. She ended up sending quite a few e-mails to her friend over the next couple days to assure her it was "OK". You can find the short article about it here.
This short article struck my attention because I can completely relate to the actress because of the specific situation. When I was really little (okay... so it was fourth grade) I had my hair all the way down to the back of my thighs. I loved it. (I think my mother loved it more though.) My whole family took a trip to the hair salon for my two brothers and my father to get their hair cut and for mom and I to get ours trimmed up a little. As I was looking through the magazines that were laid out, I kept finding and pointing out these short hair cuts that I found completely adorable! Mom did not want me to cut my hair, but since I kept begging she finally caved in.
As the hairdresser cut the long ponytail and handed it to my mother, mom burst into tears. At first I thought she was overreacting, but the lady did not stop chopping my hair off until I looked almost bald. I looked in a mirror and balled with my mom. (The boys all thought we were psycho.) I think they thing that bothered me the most at that point was that my hair looked nothing like the picture I had picked out from the magazine. It was horrible. I'm pretty sure my mom still has that lock of hair too.
Ever since this experience, I have taken the time to grow my hair long enough that each time I cut it, I am able to donate what I cut off to Wigs for Kids. Wigs for Kids is an organization that donates wigs to kids with cancer. The reason that I do this is because when my hair was chopped really short I got made fun of, and I know that kids with cancer get laughed at every day because they have no hair. It's an emotional issue for a lot of people to lose their hair in really any situation.
So as you can see, Cameron Diaz and I had some pretty similar experiences, even though I'm not an actress like her. I have never starred in awesome movies like There's Something About Mary, The Sweetest Thing, Charlie's Angels or Shrek. She still has me beat there, but she is still human and she still has weak moments. I love famous people that are truly down to earth and not completely full of themselves. I have never seen Diaz as one of those actresses.

The picture of my short hair is after it grew out a little bit. I could not find one right after it happened.