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Oprah Winfrey had to lay down the hair law at her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls near Henley-on-Klip to keep the hair of the girls at her private girls school under control - and blames weaves for causing all the trouble!
The talk show titan who've sported some over-the-top outrageous, and hair-raising hairdo's over the year on her Oprah Winfrey Show, the final season of which can still be seen in reruns currently on SABC3, blames the popularity of weaves in Africa for causing all the trouble.
In an exclusive sit-down TV interview earlier this evening on CNBC Africa (DStv 410), Oprah Winfrey told Godfrey Mutizwa in Africa Prime that weaves have made things very difficult at her private girls' school with the girls who simply love hair extensions. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls has its own private hair salon on the school grounds which Oprah Winfrey says have made a lot of money over the past few years.
Oprah Winfrey visited her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls this past weekend where the first class of girls who matriculated, had a special graduation ceremony on Saturday.
''When I started the school I came in with a hair rule and the hair rule was I wanted all the girls to have their heads shaved, or their hair pulled back neatly, or braided. That's how we all started out.''
''That's easy to do when you're 12 and 13 - which is what the ages were of the first girls. So it was easier when they were in 7th and 8th grade. Now weaves have hit Africa and it's a lot harder,'' says Oprah Winfrey. ''I came back … oh my goodness! I didn't even recognize some girls – they had 12 pounds of hair on their head!''
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