Larsa Pippen Defends Sporting Field Braids on Actual Housewives of Miami

Throughout half three of the reunion episode of “The Actual Housewives of Miami,” the 48-year-old actuality star doubled down on her choice to type her hair that method, after a viewer observed she had rocked the braids in the course of the forged’s journey to the Bahamas.

“Watching the tease for the season, I observed you have been sporting braids within the Bahamas,” host Andy Cohen learn a fan query. “Vogue-wise, you may pull it off. However do you assume it is actually culturally acceptable? I believe you are going to get loads of backlash.”

Pippen largely disagreed, “I imply, I am not White,” she mentioned. “So I do not know — my mother used to put on braids.”

“I’ve a braider who comes and braids my children’ hair each 10 days … My son’s had braids actually for the final 4 years,” the OnlyFans mannequin mentioned of her youngsters’s hair kinds. Larsa shares 4 children: Scotty Pippen Jr, Sophia, Justin and Preston together with her ex-husband Scottie Pippen.

“I am happening a visit, I do not wish to need to take care of my hair, I am going to have her braid my hair,” she added.

The tv character additional defended her historical past of sporting braids by pointing to her heritage, saying her grandparents are Moroccan whereas her mother and father are of Lebanese and Syrian descent.

“My grandparents are Moroccan,” Pippen continued. “My mother had braids when she was a child. I have been braiding my hair each time I’ve gone on trip since I can bear in mind. My honeymoon photos, my hair was braided. After I was 18 years previous, my hair was braided. I’ve at all times worn braids after I journey.”

Good friend of the Present Kiki Barth additionally weighed in on the choice following some probing from Cohen — saying, “I really feel like anyone ought to rock no matter they wish to. So long as it seems good on you, I believe we should always simply embrace it.”