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This story has deeply touched me since my parents put all my siblings and me through swimming classes to prevent us from ever being in a situation similar to yours. We would go once a week, every Wednesday after school and it quickly became my favourite part of the week. I still remember the snap of the swim cap as I squeezed it on top of my mini twists. Years later, my parents pulled us all but my little brother out of swimming to save money. At first, I was devastated. I begged my parents at every opportunity to put me back and as a compromise we all went as a family now and then. However, then I went to secondary school (high school) and none of the blacks girls had mini twists or wore their hair threaded. I was weird, an outcast. I began to excessively blowdry and use heat on my hair. Anything to show that I was not like those other Black girls and that my hair was long. I stopped going swimming and my love for it went away since nothing was more important than having my hair being palatable and liked. Your video and story made me remember how much I used to love swimming and my natural hair and all that I gave up to conform. Thank you so much!!!

Thank you for sharing this story

Such wonderful storytelling--and it's so timely for me. I never learned how to swim--I always wanted to when I was a kid, but never had the opportunity to. So, as an adult, I pushed myself to take my first swim class last year. I planned to continue going, but never picked it back up because I didn't know what to do with my hair. Lately I've been thinking about picking it back up and then I saw your video! Definitely a sign for me to continue. Thank you for sharing your story <3

I love this so much! I wish there was more films on type 4 hair, it so beautiful and and very versatile! That's why I'm in school to become a cosmetologist, so that I can learn and teach others on our hair! That doing our hair does not need to feel like a fulltime job, but its a blessing and gift to have a different texture though many people may not understand it. We learn to love it!!!

Beautiful storytelling and film❤

I loved and resonated with this😭🫶🏾

Wonderful topic you touched on I'm proud to see black women embracing their natural beauty because we were conditioned to hate ourselves and our hair by white people.❤❤

this is beautiful!❤

Amazing video

Thank you for inspiring us to love our natural hair and for introducing us to products that actually help us to love our hair! Keep loving your hair!

Product placement much? beautiful film though, every Black girl knows this pain ❤

This was so beautiful. I learned how to swim as a kid but its been so long ive forgotten. This reminded me to get back into it for sure 💕

Hey everyone thank you for your feedback on this video. if you love storytelling, I'd love to connect with you on the SOL app. I host weekly guided Story-Telling Circles with women from around the world! I hope I get the chance to meet some of you! ❤ yonicircle.app.link/promos?promoCode=kelsiasDiary&communityID=kelsiasDiary&communityTimeslotID=next (Code:Kelsiasdiary)

This was beautiful... I have two beautiful daughters that begged me all summer to swim. I was torn because it takes forever to wash and detangle, so I often said no. I’m brought to tears just knowing that I missed out on so many opportunities to teach them to swim. Next summer we are in there! Do you have any recommendations for swim caps for black girls with big hair? ❤❤❤ beautiful story. Can’t wait to share with my girls!

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this was one of the best natural hair videos Ive seen in a while.

27 is perfect age to get married. I think people need to stop infantile people in their mid to late 20s that’s good age for marriage you can enjoy each other first before children. You get married in your 30s not much time to have children if you want it naturally. Also do many couples in 30s have infertility problems. Get married at late 20s is very very normal all over the word!!!

about a year ago, I let my friends mom do my hair and she literally burnt it off. It’s been a year and it’s still breaking off and falling out. My mom’s been doing more natural styles to help with the breakage but I’m so used to straightening my hair or wearing braids things like that. I’m not comfortable with the way my hair shrinks up when it’s wet instead of laying down and being big and bouncy just yet but watching someone with kinks and coils like me really helps a lot. Thank you for giving young girls like me reasons to love themselves and someone to relate to.🩷

I’m SERIOUSLY DECIDING ALSO QUEEN ❤💯

Whats crazy is your hair at the end is soooo beautiful and it seems like all you fidget was wash brush and comb it with very little product used at all. As a white man with a black girlfriend i wish she would just love her hair as i do and let it be and not attack it with dies and wigs and lots of chemicals i want her to wash brush and comb

Thank you so much I needed this 😢

I needed to find you, I was in such a slump about my hair. I was even contemplating a texturizing it. Definitely will be following your story thank you thank you ❤️

Those look as juicy as they get!. Watching u from Angola. Ps: Your hair is not short haha.

Im still struggling after being natural for 6 years😭😭 I never style my hair without using gel, sleeking my hair in a bun everyday. I want to learn how to wear my hair in an afro but i don't know how to do that without combing my hair everyday. How do i wear out my hair without gel? Please i need some tips . I would really appreciate it❤

Thank you I needed your story❤

I love your honesty. before the natural hair movement, we didn’t love our hair. We were taught to hate our hair. Relaxers and Jerry curls were the thing to do. Yes, I’m an older woman… Jerry curl era lol. I remember all my hair fell out trying the “do it at home” version. I stop relaxing my hair 20 years ago and inspired my daughter to do the same. I love your vulnerability… young black girls need this. Keep doing what you’re doing! I don’t know you but I’m proud of you!

Thank you for making this. You don’t know how much you’ve just helped me. :)

Very beautifully put together loved how you articulated what im sure is alot of our thoughts as viewers in a video

OMG, you are beautiful

I haven't watched but all my favorite yt are reviewing it, Jessiewoo, Kennijd etc.

I don’t know love is blind at all but I’m here to support the channel and my RUclips addiction

Yes, we as women all support Demi and believe she is beautiful inside and out. However, we really need to call things for what they are…it keeps people accountable. I def believe that Ollie’s commentary surrounding Demi was almost 100% driven by self-preservation. Not by attraction to her. He knows that he would’ve been eaten alive like Sam or Shake had he verbally expressed anything less than positive about Demi’s body type. I don’t think he thinks she’s ugly, but his actions (or, lack thereof) and body language showed that he simply wasn’t into her. That is not how a man acts when he’s attracted to a woman…he treated her like a platonic homie. And I know that his rhetoric surrounding his interest in her would’ve skewed alot more “bro-y” and less kind had this not been a mic’d, televised show. Ppl’s behaviors will always supercede what comes out of their mouths, for me.

Did you take down the video? I was going to come back to watch it but I no longer see it on your channel.

No choclloate. Demi one of most beautiful women in the house but her and Ollie just didn’t have chemistry. Was only a matter of time and I think Ollie was just being nice and sticking. Around.

The contestants were also diverse (ethically and racially) coupled with appealing across the board. They carried themselves and were relate-able. I find that America 🇺🇸 needs to take notes. Period. -Fellow American

I know this was three years ago, but i do hope you've gained a better relationship with your hair because it truly is beautiful ❤ no matter how coarse, curly, dense or long Forget the beauty standard! everyone is/should be their own beauty standard. (If that makes sense😅)

Hello I know this vid is made two years ago but I just wanna how this video really touched me. As a 12 year girl that went natural last year I alway thought the loser it is the better and i would pray and beg god for a loser hair type so I started searching people with my hair type so I started trying to embrace my hair over the summer. So I try to do hairstyles and it just would'nt work.... Trust me sometimes i feel a little cute with my natural hair. Anyways one time I wore this one hair extension which looked my real l hair like the coily extension ( if you know what I mean) and While i had that on I got that, That pretty previlige so I taugh that if I grew my hair out I would be more beautiful and now i waiting to see what happens to m hair love, RUclips wiewer...

I have so many questions. I'm an American and I will be living in Colombia for a year. Medellin to start and then I want to venture into some rural areas and maybe live on a farm. How were you able to find housing in rural Colombia? I would assume they don't typically have airbnbs or FB ads right? Also what rural areas do you recommend for people that depend on wifi to work?

😢 as I sit in the bathtub with a fresh big chop for the third time in one year. Depressed from not knowing what to do with it after I’m losing my edges from locs. this video speaks volumes to me. Thank you for sharing.😭😭😭

U look amazing❤❤I have wavy hair n dry. Oiling work fr me. 😊

Amen! 🥰 I love the realness in this video.

Please review the rest!

thank you ❤❤❤

You are like Amber Rose : she don’t fits in white spaces , but she don’t fits in black spaces either. Some Jew are White : Askenazic and Yiddish and other are colored/brown : like Mizrahi and Sefaradi. Please exclude Middle Easterner and North African from White community.

as a junior in high school, ive had short hair all my life, i often had relaxers, box braids, and quick weaves all my life. it stayed at bob length till today. ive had to cut off my permed parts and ive decided to try and love my hair and let my hair breathe, instead of going from one style to another.

Cant wait for the rest of the season from your pov!! ❤🇧🇷

Thank u, I subscibe!

Reminds me, nothing more twilight zone feel than being in class and your chemistry teacher calling african albino people light ni**ers and everyone laughing even people calling you their friend and you sit there black, dark skinned and out of body for that whole experience.

7:54 white people don't meet the eurocentric beauty standards. Obesity is not just a black thing. I feel like as black people we often glamorize whiteness. Because most of what we see of white people is media driven. Even though you have to push through the bias of your our hiring manager to get the job. If these people can get away with wearing a messy bun i should be able to wear my afro puffs

Yes I went to a pwi too i remember when history class taught about slavery every kid turning around looking at me. Smdh