Model forced to relax hair or be fired from reality show

Gabriella Bernard has created a short film, stemming from her experience on Caribbean's Next Top Model

AN ASPIRING young model has released a 20 minute short film, inspired by a harrowing hair experience she faced on a Caribbean reality show.

Gabrielle Bernard starred on Caribbean's Next Top Model and was shamed for her natural hair. In a clip from the short film, entitled Black Hair, Bernard can be seen visibly upset and is heard say­ing she did not want her hair chem­i­cal­ly straight­ened and al­so gave rea­sons why.

One of those rea­sons, Bernard said, was that she want­ed to em­brace the “nat­ur­al beau­ty and em­pow­er­ment of black peo­ple.”

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