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When I was a young girl, I wasn't always trying to have curly hair.

It's really empowering to have curly hair.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.

It's definitely a little bit ironic being known for my hair because, as a little girl, I had no idea what I was doing with it. I was insecure about it. I didn't have as many references to curly girls, and I wanted to just fit in with all my other friends.

As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.