In a rare and candid interview, Beyoncé reveals that she suffers from the skin disease psoriasis.
Queen Bey talked about undergoing a metamorphosis of the soul when she became a new mother and also decided to cut off most of her hair, an act of rebellion against societal expectations.
“I remember the day I decided to just cut all my hair off. I didn’t have a particular style in mind,” she told Essence magazine.
“It wasn’t an aesthetic choice. But it was a very big emotional transformation and metamorphosis that I was going through,” Bey explained. “So much of my identity as a performer has been connected to flowing hair. Cutting my hair off was me rebelling against being this woman that society thinks I’m supposed to be. I was a new mother. And something about the liberation of becoming a mother made me want to just shed all of that. It was a physical representation of me shedding the expectations put upon me…I just got the scissors and chopped it off. It was very intentional. And it was what I needed to do. And after that, I became super brave. It was the first step to many more audacious decisions I made in my life and my career that have led to who I am now.”
Queen Bey shared with the magazine what it means to launch the haircare product CÉCRED in light of her psoriasis, an auto-immune disease that is long-lasting and causes patches of abnormal skin that can be itchy, scaly and red.
“The relationship we have with our hair is such a deeply personal journey. From spending my childhood in my mother’s salon to my father applying oil on my scalp to treat my psoriasis,” Beyoncé continued.
“These moments have been sacred to me,” Bey added. “I took the end of my name, Cé, and made it the beginning of the word sacred to create Cécred. From my mother’s salon, daily rituals with my father, and years of experience in developing a hair care line, the journey has been just that: Cécred.”
