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The \"Game\" alum said the process \"damaged my hair and it damaged my natural curls\" but she continued to do it because, \"If I had my hair curly, I was told, 'Can you pull that back?' On auditions, I was told, 'It's distracting.'\"

\"We didn't understand that we were experiencing all of this kickback,\" she wrote. \"What that rejection did was create a lot of insecurity.\"

\"It made us feel like we weren't valuable in that space. Like we weren't valuable at all,\" the actress furthered.

Tia credits her mother, Darlene Mowry, for inspiring her and her sister to embrace their natural beauty, which she said stopped them from \"falling into the pit of childhood stardom.\"

Now, she celebrates her curls and wrote, \"Black beauty to me is being unapologetic. It means strong. It means bold. It means confidence. It means beautiful.\"

\"When you are a minority, you have to see the lack of diversity being pushed in beauty and you have to have those qualities of being unapologetic,\" she expressed.

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