Rihanna suffered from traumatic “waves” of postpartum hair loss.
The 36-year-old “We Found Love” singer has two-year-old sons RZA and ten-month-old Riot with her rapper partner A$AP Rocky (35). She admitted that the disease was “not on the leaflet” when she began her journey to motherhood.
In an interview with Refinery29 to mark the launch of her Fenty Hair products, she said, “I didn’t expect it to happen in waves either. I thought it would just happen and grow back.”
Rihanna said her hair started falling out in clumps in different places on her head, and she thought, “Enough is enough.”
She added that it forced her to change her style: “I’ve learned to accept that in itself. It’s actually made me a little more creative and sophisticated with my hair stuff.”
Rihanna wore short curls at her launch event and her fans said they found her confession “relatable.”
Her new hair care line, Fenty, includes shampoo for $29 and a heat-protecting styling cream for $28.
Rihanna has been dating A$AP since 2020 after the two began dating professionally in 2013.
The name of their son RZA is a tribute to the producer and rapper RZA, 54, leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, whose real name is Robert Fitzgerald Diggs – and also a reference to A$AP’s middle name.
Not only did Rihanna say that her hair loss prompted a change in her style, but she also recently said that her provocative old outfits were her biggest fashion “yuck.”
When asked by British what her biggest turn-off was when it came to clothing, she said: “I’ve done so much (nonsense) in my life. My nipples were out, my panties were out.”
“But these are the things that I value now as a mother, as a mature young woman… they’re just things that I feel like I would never do.
“And I just thought, ‘Oh my God, I really did that? Nipples out?'”
