“Once I found out I was having a little girl, I was like, ‘Please Lord, can she have a lot of hair? Because I just want to do her hair all day.’ I never thought it would get to where it is now,” she says of Zhuri’s hair, which cascades down the eight-year-old’s back. That changed in 2015 when her daughter Zhuri was born. (Bronny) and Bryce, James didn’t have to spend much time on anyone else’s hair besides her own. With her family at the time comprised of herself, LeBron, and their two sons, LeBron, Jr.
I would have three bundles in my head, and I loved it,” she explains. “I was just going with what I knew, what I was comfortable with, and what I felt looked good on me.” James stopped relaxing her hair in 2006 and spent years flat ironing it straight before venturing into what she calls her sew-in days. “My mom always instilled a certain level of confidence and self-assurance in me, so I didn’t go into LeBron being in the NBA and having all these spotlights around thinking that I needed to change anything about myself,” she says. And while the attention that followed her as LeBron shot to stardom could have pushed her to adopt styles and trends others saw fitting, she never swayed from what she was naturally drawn to.
It was the last time James put her trust in a stylist without setting explicit expectations.
