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Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with Malyia McNaughton, the model whose natural hair segment on the Today Show went viral for all the wrong reasons.

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“I didn’t have a monitor to look at so I didn’t know anything went wrong. I just knew that it didn’t feel right. I didn’t know until I took a picture after the segment. The goal was supposed to be a high ponytail that went into the bang. I think nerves just took over,” McNaughton said.

Click the link above to hear the entire interview.

Natural Hair Model Reveals What Really Happened On ‘Today Show’ was originally published on blackamericaweb.com