Emmy Rossum Embraces Her Natural Curls After Years of Straightening, Credits Her Daughter

Emmy Rossum is done fighting her hair, and her reason is worth hearing. The actress told Page Six Style at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards 2026 that she’s fully embracing her natural curls after years of chemical straightening, keratin treatments, and flat-ironing. In her words, it means embracing“my wholeness, my whole ethnicity, my specificity of texture.”She brings that natural texture to her role in the Hulu series“Furious,”letting audiences see more of her real self on screen.

The catalyst behind the change was her daughter, born in 2021. Rossum said she didn’t want to raise her child to believe her hair needs altering, asking:“Why should I tell her that she should make her hair look [like] anything other than how it grows out of her head?”It’s a powerful statement about self-acceptance and the example parents set without even realizing it. The story lands because so many people know the cost of years of treatments, both in money and in confidence, and Rossum’s shift touches on beauty standards, identity, and parenting all at once.

Curly hair, straight hair, wavy hair, somewhere in between, everyone has a story about learning to love what they were given. Have you ever gone back to your natural look after years of styling it differently? Tell us your hair journey in the comments.