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June 19, 2007

Oprah and I have bad hair days.. thanks for noticing:)

By Kim Martinez

So the first thing I heard when I got to the station during the wee hours this morning was a voice mail. The voice was that of a pleasant grandmother type. She even started off sweet when she said "Kim you're so cute!" And I'm thinking that's nice to hear this early! Then came the "BUT.." She continued with "Will you please CURL your hair? It's really stringy sometimes and I just think if you'd curl it, you'd be even cuter!"

My initial thought was, is that my mom? Then I remembered no, my mom hates my makeup (she doesn't think I wear enough lipstick) and this one skirt (says the slit is too high) but generally doesn't have a beef with my hair. Hmm must be a legitimate and random voicemail from a viewer. Then I just kind of smiled to myself picturing this sweet elderly woman taking the time to look up the number to the station in the phonebook, call the receptionist, get patched through to my voicemail and leave me that message.

It's hard to be offended at something like that because she had the best intentions. I think we do many mean things to each other everyday, granted unintentional, from cutting each other off in traffic to cursing out the person who accidentally cut us off in traffic. So this actually made me kind of happy. She put that much effort into trying to help out another person to make them the best they can be.

Funny thing about it all, Oprah started her show today talking about the emails and letters complaining of her "flat" hair lately. I thought wow, it's pretty hard to pick apart oprah who's always striving to be the best she can be but her hair has looked a little funny lately. So just like my sweet viewer who made the effort to call me, Oprah's viewers just want to help her out. I say tell us what works and what doesn't because sometimes a girl needs a better critic than her mom:)

Posted by Kim Martinez at June 19, 2007 8:07 PM

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