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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Paulina, you cut all your hair off? Yeah, and I did.
You're referring to this as the mom cut. Yeah, so
they called the mom chop. I didn't know I had
a name. I call it the Kaalin, but apparently it's
called the mom chop.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
So when moms.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Give birth or they have kids, whatever, they just chop
off all their hair. It's a thing like the long
hair is no longer.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
So what'd you cut off? Maybe six inches?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Yeah, right, a lot because my hair is not long
at all.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
And they wear extensions, but I haven't had them in
a while, but I would say a good amount. When
I saw that video posted of me playing the Definitely
Gonna Be Paulina game, and I saw my hair and
you guys let me look like that.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I was so upset.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
You looked fun. You look. What do you think that is?
I'm curious? Eight five five five three five What do
you think that is?

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Like?

Speaker 4 (00:39):
What's that about? What is it that you just get
tired of?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
You're trying to simplify your life after you have a kid,
and it's just there's so much going on. You don't
have to wash your hair, mess with it, so you
just cut it off.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
So our friend Ac I saw her over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
She told me that because she did it too, and
she's like, yeah, we just think it's easier, so we
just chop it off, you know, less time to like,
you know, do it get it ready.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
For me, it was more of like an identity thing.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
I was just like, you know what, like, my hair
doesn't look that great, let's go for a new look,
new era, right mom era was like, let's just do it.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
I didn't know what.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
It had a whole term and there was a whole
movement behind it. I just thought it was me cutting
my hair off. But people say they do it all
the time for that reason because they don't want to
get ready the baby. Also, when the baby has to
pull your hair, that's like a pain the ass because
oh really, yeah, my daughter hearings because she's doing the
reaching thing now, so like when I put her down,
it's me and the hair going down.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Because I've had like a mental breakdown before where I
think I want to shave.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
I have shaved my beard.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Off because it just felt like it felt cleansing, like
I can't really describe it, but I never felt more
like Britney than I did.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
This was years ago, but.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Like, I don't know, I felt like I had to
take some drastic control over my life somehow.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
I'm like, what am I gonna do? And I just
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
It felt like I needed to strip myself of all
ancillary I don't know. I wouldn't shave my beard off.
It was random and I felt like in control, and
so I looked at myself. I was like, this looks
terrible grow back.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Maybe that's what.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
I did in control thing because I didn't even plan it.
It was Thursday after after work and I hit up
one of my girls and I was like, hey, I
just want to cut this off.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Can I come in?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
And she's like yeah. I walked in, sat down, like
what are we doing? And I was like, just chop
it off? Like that's not like me. Girls usually plan
these things, like should I do it?

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Whatever?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
When I went blonde, I thought about this for weeks.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well that's why I was asking was it a practical thing?
Was it an emotional thing?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I think it was emotional for it well, kind of
both emotional because I saw a video of myself and
I was like, my hair looks like a rat's nest.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
It was awful. Like, I know it's curly, but it
looked so bad.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Hold on, Alyssa, you chopped all your hair off too,
all of it?

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Oh? Okay? So yes I did. I shaved my head.
Oh and people at people came to me and pulled
me aside and asked, Melissa, is everything okay? Or are
you okay? Do you want to talk about it? And
I'm like nope. I just at the time, I was single,
so I knew I wasn't going to scare anyone away.

(02:51):
So yes, I chopped off my hair. It was a
liberating thing and I loved it.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
It does feel like you're taking control over some thing
I guess is what it is? So how long was
the hair before you shaved it off?

Speaker 6 (03:05):
So, so my hair was I don't know, let's say
it was probably it was passed my shoulders mid back.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Okay, this is drastic.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
So you walked in with like mid back long hair
and you walked out with bald shaved or just really
oh oh, I shaved.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
I ended up doing well. I shaved, and then I
ended up going into a cute Pixi cup for a
year or two.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Okay, So I can see why people might think that
now here was the second part of this.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
They're like, they're like, are you having your Britney Spearson moment.
I'm like, okay, is it? Is it not okay for
women to just chop their hair? And it's like, I
don't have to have a mental disability, you know, to
chop off.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Well I do, so it's fine. It's all good. Now.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
You mentioned and Paulina mentioned this too off the air,
but you mentioned Alysa that you didn't have a partner,
so you didn't feel like you had to run this
by anybody.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Paulina, No, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
Not going ahead, not that I had that permission or anything,
but it was like, I you know, guys have preference,
and I knew, you know, maybe if I was dating
someone that, you know, they'd be like, no, oh my god,
I love your hair. I have. I have curly hair naturally,
and I was, you know, I'll sil it from time
to time. But I was like, you know what, I
don't have anyone that's going to tell me no, don't

(04:21):
do it, aside from maybe my family. So I did it.
I shaved it, and I got more compliments shaved than
I actually did it with my natural hair.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Oh right, fair enough, Thank you, listen, have a good day.

Speaker 6 (04:35):
Thank you too.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
So people were asking you, Paulina, if you asked hobby
ahead of times and did you.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
No, he didn't even know I was going. He was
at work that day and I texted him, I'm gonna
go cut my hair. And I don't think he expected
that much, but I said him a picture of the
hair on the floor, and it's a lot of hair,
because you know, I didn't just trim it.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I mean I cut off a lot.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
And he was just like, oh, And I sent a
picture of my hair and he was like, oh, we
went short, and I was like, yeah, we did. And
so his short hair Queen is what he calls me. No, oh,
I know he likes it. He prefers it's a preference thing.
He prefers longer hair. But I did what I did.
But you don't have to ask. No, No, I have.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
You met me. I'm not asking nobody if.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
You were gonna, like, if you're gonna shave your head,
I guess I can see asking, but I mean cutting
to a few inches off, it's nobody's business. But I mean,
if you're gonna completely transform the way you look, shouldn't
I mean I'm not. That's not to say you can't,
but shouldn't you at least consult the person?

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Kiki?

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I mean like consult Like again, if they say no,
I don't know that that means you don't do it.
But I mean, you know, if you're with someone and
they're attracted to the way that you look, and again
they don't get the final say. But I mean, wouldn't
you want to be considerate of what this other person
who's highly invested in you thinks of the way that
you look.

Speaker 7 (05:43):
Yeah, this is a constant argument in my house because
I don't ask anybody anything. You know, I switch wigs
from Monday to Thursday. I might be a hold another person. However,
I feel like with Big Tim, like you should talk
to me about what I would like for your hair.
And so he's on this whole thing like I'm growing
my hair out and it's not even up for discussion.
I'm like, okay, I mean you want to go down

(06:03):
that road, but I feel like I should have a
say in how he looks.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
But he did well rhetorical question. He doesn't get a
say in how you look. I knew the answer.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
I always feel like I make good decisions for me, don't.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Well, then he should make make great decisions for him.
He's not going to say anything to you because you
got so many wings that one day you got this
kind of hair, and if he doesn't like it, the
next day you'll have a different kind of hair exactly.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
So it's not like it's permanent, but with him, it's permanent.

Speaker 7 (06:29):
So that's why I'm like, you should talk to your partner,
even women. I feel like, you know, we obviously can
do whatever we want, but like if I was to
go shave my head or to like do a significant haircut,
I would talk to him about it because I want
to be you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
I wanted to be attracted at least have a conversation.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Anyone who's like, do not do that, like I dump
you or something someone like that will buy Yeah, no,
you don't get to control me like that.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
But I think it's considerate.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
It was that bad for not asking or at least
like him because I told him when I told the
world basically, no, you look cute.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
It looks great, but it's nothing. It's not that direct,
like if you'd gone like a like a I don't
know about yeah. I mean you guys, I think you
got to at least say, hey, heads up, this is
what I'm thinking about doing, because that's a that is
a that you are changing the way you look fundamentally
correct at that case. In that case, Hey Ashley, hi bye,
good morning. So you're also a new mom. Cut all
your hair off?

Speaker 6 (07:19):
Good morning?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yes I did.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
I kind of had to.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
My son is going to be uh one.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
In two weeks, and when he was four months old,
my hair started coming out.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
The most part of hair loss was real.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm icy, okay, so then you just cut it short
to sort of I don't know, mitigate, Yes, I had.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
It was just no loner serving me.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
It had to go. Okay, So this was and I
loved it.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
And they grab it.

Speaker 6 (07:51):
They grabbed that hair.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Everything they did okay.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
So for those it was.

Speaker 6 (07:56):
Just it was time to go, and I love.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
It all right, fair enough? They thank you, Ashley, You're welcome.
A good day.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I haven't, uh, Linda, Hi, you wanted to. You wanted
to show the outside. You wanted to show all the
people how much your life has changed. So you chopped
it all off.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
That's right, that's right, good morning morning.

Speaker 5 (08:15):
So after I had my baby, I felt like a
whole different person, like now I'm a mama. You know,
before I had the long, curly hair and going out
and all that, and then all of a sudden, I
had this precious little baby girl, and I cut my hair.
And I think subconsciously it was because I wanted to
reflect on the outside that I was a different person

(08:38):
now that I'm a mama.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
So I got my hair cut.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
And I don't think I actually realized it at the time,
but I was a new person and I wanted to,
you know, show everybody, hey, I'm a mama now.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
So I changed my.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
Look to reflect the way that I had changed inside.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
So you don't think maybe you holding the kid was
like enough for them to go, hey, she's got a kidnapped.
She's a mom. And did you did you ask Linda?
I don't know if you have a partner, but did
you ask your partner at a time? But you just
do it?

Speaker 4 (09:07):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I did not, No, I did not.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
I got a pixie cut and I came home and
he said, what the hell.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Did you do? I'm a mom? Now?

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Did you tell him Linda, I'm a mom? Now? Give
my heads up? That's how he found out. Thank you Linda,
have a great day. You can't lets you blogs. Next
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