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An actress’s Facebook post about cutting off her hair has this powerful message
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AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS AND singer Clare Bowen is well known in the States for appearing in the TV show Nashville.
She usually has long, flowing locks in the show – as you can see above.
But yesterday she posted to Facebook that she has cut it all off – and her message has been shared nearly 200,000 times.
But why? Well, two reasons. A little girl came up to her and said she couldn’t be a princess because of her short hair and Bowen’s own childhood battle with cancer.
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When she posted this photo to Facebook, she wrote a powerful essay on why long hair isn’t that important:
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She referenced her own childhood cancer diagnosis, saying all the kids she grew up with were:
Her message now is that kids with cancer should believe that their lack of hair won’t hold them back.
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She then thanked her TV network ABC for allowing her character’s hair to change along with her own personal call. She ended her post with this line:
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