Followers of former “Black-ish” star Tracee Ellis Ross are speeding to her protection.
The actress was publicly disrespected by a colleague she’s had a really lengthy relationship with.
The 53-year-old actress and fashionista is the daughter of singer Diana Ross.
Her dad is music supervisor Robert Ellis Silberstein.
She realized to embrace her pure hair rising up as a toddler actor and mannequin.
However she hasn’t at all times gotten the respect she deserves, and her newest viral second proves it.
‘You’re on TV — You’re Representing Black Folks’: Tracee Ellis Ross Remembers an Occasion of Backlash She Obtained for Carrying Her Pure Hair on ‘Girlfriends’
Ross’ followers and girls alike are outraged over a Vogue article titled “16 Flattering Haircuts for Thick Hair, No Matter Your Texture or Size,” which was printed on April 14.
It included an image of Ross rocking an Afro and a weird description.
The article learn, “Outlined by hairstylist Tom Smith as a ’rounded haircut with a tender, ethereal silhouette,’ the cloud bob performs nicely with wavy, curly, and coily thick hair that has pure motion and quantity.”
A clip of the publish was shared on X with the caption, “It’s 2026 and so they’re calling an Afro a ‘cloud bob.’”
After receiving backlash on social media, the article was up to date, however that hasn’t stopped followers and supporters of Ross from roasting the style journal.
Actress Yvette Nicole Brown additionally shared the Vogue clip on Threads with the caption, “Afro. The phrase they’re in search of right here is: AFRO. And it wasn’t created by that Tim Smith dude. Cloud bob my [emoji].”
One other fan shared the clip on X with a sentiment felt by many on-line. “I’m so bored with the colonizer nonsense. A cloud bob? Significantly? That’s an Afro. It’s been an afro for many years and it’ll stay an Afro. GTFOOHWTBS! Cloud bob. WTF?”
“Cloud bob is pissing me and my homegirls clear off,” one other consumer famous.
A cloud bob is the craziest sh— I’ve heard about Black hair.
And in the meantime, her mother dazzled with that coiffure! 💖 pic.twitter.com/28gechn5CF
— Claire Huxtable (@Garyville_Girl) April 16, 2026
One fan shared an image of Diana Ross sporting a crown in her Motown years. The publish was captioned, “A cloud bob is the craziest sh— I’ve heard about Black hair. And in the meantime, her mother dazzled with that coiffure!”
Vogue’s replace included eradicating the “cloud bob” half from the article, which followers seen. “They eliminated it. Ridiculous bs. An Afro being known as a cloud bob. And what’s a bixie? That’s the identical pixie lower all of us had within the Nineteen Nineties.”
Regardless of the outrage, Ross smiled in a photograph shared on her Instagram Story on April 16 although as an alternative of rocking her afro, she pulled her hair again in a low bun.
The “Girlfriends” star started embracing her pure curly hair after a few years of struggling to evolve to society’s requirements, sharing photograph montages on Instagram with messages about her hair evolution all through her life.
“A TALE OF TEXTURES,” Ross wrote in 2020. “My hair has performed many a task all through my life. Once I was a teen, I didn’t perceive it so I attempted all the things beneath the solar to make it do what I believed it ought to. The outcomes weren’t nice. Specifically, it was fried. However, as soon as I started listening to my hair and began determining what it favored, my true curl sample emerged.”
She additionally spoke about going gray, which she says has modified the feel of her hair.
“By the point I made it onto ‘Girlfriends’ my hair was wholesome and POPPIN,” she continued. “However as I’ve grown and matured my texture has developed. My hair is now turning gray (proof of my life and my years). And whereas the gray has modified my texture and the dye I exploit to cowl it has loosened my sample, I lastly know my hair in and out.”
Ross added that she wasn’t able to embrace going grey fairly but, however she now loves her pure hair.
“Taking the time to simply accept, perceive and love my hair mirrors the connection I’ve with myself,” she wrote. ” I’ve grown to like and recognize my hair in all of its seasons. As a result of hair love IS self love.”
Ross has her personal magnificence model known as PATTERN, which she based again in 2019 for individuals with 3B-4C hair. The haircare founder mentioned that her model is “made by and for us” throughout an interview with WWD.
“Sample is about merchandise made by and for us,” she mentioned. “And it’s about creating an area for a group that exists, to have fun our magnificence and magic… I’ve been advertising my hair since my social media began. It’s such an enormous a part of my being-ness, of who I’m and the way I costume myself. Now I’ve a reputation for it.”
Ross added that she went to boarding faculty in Switzerland, and there weren’t many children that regarded like her, so she relaxed her hair to slot in.
“I began my journey enjoyable my hair, going to the salon each Saturday to get my hair moist and set, sitting beneath a dryer, and getting blown out and making an attempt to increase that Saturday hair via the week,” she recalled. “Then having my mother get up and press my edges, sleeping in sponge rollers and getting a criminal in my neck, and carrying my hair so tight I’d get complications making an attempt to get a slicked-back ponytail.”
After school, although, Ross was completed with enjoyable her hair, and her hair evolution is full, not less than till she embraces these grays.
