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Valerie Bertinelli is taking her grays one day at a time.
The Food Network star and author took to social media this week to share a “PSA about filters and grey roots.”
While addressing reader comments about her use of filters on her videos (“Sometimes I use filter, and sometimes I don’t. Most of the time, I do use filter because this is me with no makeup, and this is no filter”), Bertinelli, 63, took the opportunity to cheekily call out a follower who claimed she was wearing a wig.
The Hot in Cleveland actress flipped her head down and tousled her hair, showing a smattering of gray regrowth.
“Can you get me a wig without flipping gray roots then, please, because I’m tired of getting my roots done every two weeks,” she quipped. “Thank goodness 99.9 percent of you are really kind, sweet people and don’t give a flying flip whether I have roots or I put a filter on. But some of y’all need to chill out, ok? I mean seriously.”
A-lister Gwyneth Paltrow has chimed in on the great gray debate too.
During a Q&A session on Instagram, the golden-haired Goop queen (who had been pictured on the town with some conspicuous grow-out) was asked by a fan, “Are [you] growing in to your natural grey hair? Which is beautiful btw.” The candid actress didn’t skip a beat. “I don’t know,” Paltrow grinned. “I’ve just been lazy over the summer.”
The Avengers star took it one step further. She polled readers on her strand situation: Should she go gray or stay blonde? (FYI: Blonde won out.)
Paltrow, 51, joins a parade of stars embracing the au naturel look. Bombshell actress Salma Hayek, 57, took to Instagram to show off a glimmery streak at her temple and offer up some sage advice: “Here is a tip to cover your white hair without dyeing it … don’t wear your glasses on your hair!!! Bring on the wisdom.”
Saying bye-bye to the dye
Andie MacDowell is one of the more notable celebrities in recent years to publicly embrace gray after years of dyeing her hair. At the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, she wore her hair down in classic waves. The actress, 65, first caused a stir in the fall of 2021 when she strutted down the L’Oréal Paris runway rocking a one-shouldered marabou-trimmed sequin gown with a thigh-high slit — and a riot of unexpected silver curls.
The Wall Street Journal dubbed the stereotype-defying trend for women to go gray at work the new “power move.”
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