Remember how Hayden Panettiere recently ditched her blonde locks for red hair? Well, she recently told Us magazine that she decided to make the change, “Because I could!”
She says, “I was tired of being a blonde and being… you get stuck in one thing and known for one thing and as a cheerleader or whatever that image. It’s fun to change things up, and I feel I don’t have to overcompensate as much personality-wise when I have red hair as I do with blonde hair.”
Hayden adds that her new red shade suits her personality better: “I’m typically a very fiery person anyway, but I just feel like cute and blonde and little is just so one category and one thing and changing my hair color, I feel like I don’t have to overcompensate so much for the fact that I don’t like being called cute or anything like that — especially being all 5-foot-2 of me.”
Hayden also says it’s no big deal that she dates older guys. “It just happens to be the people that I’m drawn to, and you go, ‘How old are you?’ And then it’s like ‘Typical!’” she said while laughing. “It’s just a number and it’s just on a birth certificate and whoever it may be, older, younger, blonde, brunette….”
(I kinda love when magazines quote people verbatim.)
Also, Hayden’s red hair looks pretty good!
I love the red hair color but feel a little bad for her that she thinks her hair color defines her and how she acts. I recently saw the doc The Cove, where the footage of Hayden on the surf board being threatened by crazy Japanese dolphin killers is used, and it made me think there was more to her than being cute and perky. I don’t know which is worse, thinking you should act like the stereotype you get tagged with or actually living it out because you “have to”.
Kelly, I thought her quotes were strange for that reason too. Like, how much does your blonde hair really make you who you are? I mean, you are who you are… But I suppose in Hollywood where your look does define you and the roles you get, it’s more of an issue than in everyday life. She does have such a little, cute, cheerleader look. I hate to say, the red hair doesn’t do that much to change it. Sorry babe, you’re just cute!