We’re at that point in self isolation where people are starting to make hasty decisions about their hair. In the case of Camila Cabello, that means asking your mom to cut your overgrown bangs.
When you’re a famous pop star, you then document the entire process for all of your fans, of course—which is exactly what Cabello did on her Instagram Stories. We appreciate that she acknowledged attempting to do this herself would be a very bad idea. “This is what it’s come to. The bangs are too long…can’t go outside,” she said in the video. “I’m going to have to trust this woman with my bangs because I can’t trust myself.” She says she chose poorly in middle school to terrible results: “In seventh grade, I used to cut my own bangs, and they looked like mountains.
“I’ve been seeing a lot of posts warning people not to do this, let’s see how it turns out. Right now, I look like Snape [from Harry Potter],” she said.
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Enter her mom, Sinuhe Estrabao, to save the day. Cabello gave hilarious commentary throughout the process as her mom trimmed her wet hair. The initial results were “not great” according to the singer, since her mom didn’t follow her directions to angle her bangs to blend the longer ends with the rest of her hair near her temples. Instead, Cabello said, she just cut straight across her forehead. “She just horizontal-lined that shit,” she said, teasing her mom. “So, we’ll see how I look.”
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Also, their lighthearted bickering will likely remind you of many a conversation with your own mom. And the final result? “It actually ended up looking not that bad,” Cabello said.
In case you were wondering how Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes were spending time during the coronavirus outbreak, they’re social distancing together.
On Friday, March 20, The couple took to Instagram Live to perform for fans, joining the ranks of John Legend, Chris Martin, and Mandy Moore—all of whom have put on virtual shows to entertain the masses during this tough time. Cabello and Mendes sang some tunes for fans as part of Global Citizen’s “Together At Home” concert series, kicking off their set with a rendition of Ed Sheeran’s “Kiss Me”.
They also took questions from commenters and made some suggestions about how people should be spending time while we’re all stuck at home. “I think everybody should start Harry Potter from top to end,” Mendes said. “That’s the way to go.”
“We started watching it yesterday. I knew everything about it, of course,” Cabello joked before admitting, “I didn’t really know much. He knows a lot about it.” This led to a conversation about which Hogwarts house they think the other would be assigned to. Mendes told his girlfriend he believed she would absolutely be Gryffindor. “Really? That’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me,” she replied and revealed she thinks he would be assigned to the same house by the sorting hat.
The couple performed for about 24 minutes and did a number of their hits like “Havana”, “Lost in Japan”, and, of course, “Senorita.”
Cabello and Mendes have been friends for years, but only got romantically involved last year. “It’s so funny because when we first started going out it’s so weird… [dating] somebody who was your friend for a really long time,” Cabello told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show back in December. “The people around you already know them because you’ve known them for a long time, so it’s just like, ‘Now we kiss and hold hands.'”
Normani just broke her silence on Camila Cabello‘s past racist social media posts, which the “Havana” singer apologized for last year. (The two performed in the pop group Fifth Harmony together from 2012 to 2016.)
“I want to be very clear about what I’m going to say on this uncomfortable subject and figured it would be best to write out my thoughts to avoid being misconstrued, as I have been in the past,” she told Rolling Stone magazine. “I struggled with talking about this because I didn’t want it to be a part of my narrative, but I am a black woman, who is a part of an entire generation that has a similar story.”
“I face senseless attacks daily, as does the rest of my community,” she continued. “This represents a day in the life for us. I have been tolerating discrimination far before I could even comprehend what exactly was happening. Direct and subliminal hatred has been geared toward me for many years solely because of the color of my skin.”
“It would be dishonest if I said that this particular scenario didn’t hurt me,” she said, referring to Cabello’s past posts and also online bullying she experienced from fans during the Fifth Harmony days. “It was devastating that this came from a place that was supposed to be a safe haven and a sisterhood, because I knew that if the tables were turned, I would defend each of them in a single heartbeat. It took days for her to acknowledge what I was dealing with online and then years for her to take responsibility for the offensive tweets that recently resurfaced. Whether or not it was her intention, this made me feel like I was second to the relationship that she had with her fans.”
Normani added, “I don’t want to say that this situation leaves me hopeless because I believe that everyone deserves the opportunity for personal growth. I really hope that an important lesson was learned in this. I hope there is genuine understanding about why this was absolutely unacceptable.”
Cabello was called out in 2019, when a Twitter user posted a thread of screenshots allegedly from her old Tumblr account that showed her using racially insensitive language and reblogging a number of racist and xenophobic tropes and images.
“When I was younger, I used language that I’m deeply ashamed of and will regret forever,” Cabello wrote in December 2019, referencing the posts. “I was uneducated and ignorant and once I became aware of the history and the weight and the true meaning behind this horrible language, I was deeply embarrassed I ever used it.”
“I apologized then and I apologize now,” Cabello continued. “I would never intentionally hurt anyone and I regret it from the bottom of my heart. As much as I wish I could, I can’t go back in time and change things I said in the past. But once you know better, you do better and that’s all I can do.”
Cabello added, “I’m 22 now, I’m an adult and I’ve grown and learned and am conscious and aware of the history and the pain it carries in a way I wasn’t before. Those mistakes don’t represent the person I am or a person I’ve ever been. I only stand and have ever stood for love and inclusivity, and my heart has never, even then, had any ounce of hate or divisiveness.”
Once you post something on the internet, it’s never really gone—no matter how long ago you deleted it. Right now, Camila Cabello is finding out what happens when those posts resurface.
Here’s what happened, in case you don’t spend all your free time on the socials. A Twitter user named @motivatefenty posted a thread with a number of screenshots from (what is believed to be) Cabello’s old Tumblr account that show her using racially insensitive language and reblogging a number of racist or xenophobic tropes and images.
The 22-year-old singer then posted an apology to Twitter and Instagram Stories on Wednesday, December 18. “When I was younger, I used language that I’m deeply ashamed of and will regret forever,” she writes. “I was uneducated and ignorant and once I became aware of the history and the weight and the true meaning behind this horrible language, I was deeply embarrassed I ever used it.”
“I apologized then and I apologize now,” Cabello continues. ““I would never intentionally hurt anyone and I regret it from the bottom of my heart. As much as I wish I could, I can’t go back in time and change things I said in the past. But once you know better, you do better and that’s all I can do.”
She adds that she has grown and changed since the time when she was posting those things to Tumblr and now uses her platforms “to speak out about injustice and inequality.”
“I’m 22 now, I’m an adult and I’ve grown and learned and am conscious and aware of the history and the pain it carries in a way I wasn’t before,” she says. “Those mistakes don’t represent the person I am or a person I’ve ever been. I only stand and have ever stood for love and inclusivity, and my heart has never, even then, had any ounce of hate or divisiveness.”
Camila Morrone is getting serious acclaim for her breakout role in the independent film Mickey and the Bear—her performance has even led people to compare her to Jennifer Lawrence. It has also helped shift Hollywood’s gross reduction of her as simply “Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriend,” although there’s been new attention applied to their relationship, specifically their 23-year age difference. (She’s 22; he’s 45.) Speaking to the Los Angeles Times this week, Morrone made it clear she’s not too concerned about the gap or what people think of it.
“There’s so many relationships in Hollywood—and in the history of the world—where people have large age gaps,” she said, adding, “I just think anyone should be able to date who they want to date.” She did admit she kind of understands the fascination with the relationship, which seems to have started sometime in 2017 when they were first spotted together. “I probably would be curious about it too,” she said.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone.
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Morrone is right that there are tons of relationships with large age gaps in Hollywood, but consistently it seems to be men dating much younger women. This is so prevalent that the internet was surprised when actor Keanu Reeves stepped onto the red carpet with a woman closer to his age (she’s eight years younger).
Camila Morrone didn’t go into other details about dating DiCaprio, focusing instead on how Mickey and the Bear has opened up new opportunities for her and established who she is outside of her boyfriend. “I think more and more now that people are seeing the film, I’m slowly getting an identity outside of that,” she said. “Which is frustrating, because I feel like there should always be an identity besides who you’re dating.” She continued, “I understand the association, but I’m confident that will continue to slip away and be less of a conversation.”
Camila Cabello recently took a trip across the pond for an event at Kensington Palace, hosted by none other than Kate Middleton and Prince William themselves. The singer was there to celebrate the finalists of BBC Radio’s Teen Awards, which shine “a light on some of the UK’s most inspirational teens” according to the royals’ Instagram post.
It all sounds very lovely, but thanks to a new interview Cabello did with BBC Radio’s Greg James, who was also on hand at the event, we know there were some shenanigans going on. “Last time I saw you we were at the palace, don’t tell anyone what my mother and I did,” Cabello says, which of course James proceeds to do. He says they were about to meet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, when he dared the singer to steal something and suggested a nearby pencil.
“I was like, [do] you triple-doggy dare me?” Cabello said. He did, so she snagged the pencil and stashed it in her mom’s purse. “And then you to one of the palace people called me out on it. You were like, ‘She stole a pencil!'”
At least one person present suggested Cabello shouldn’t take the dare. “My mum was like ‘No, we have to give it back, we have to give back the pencil’ and I was like ‘No, he tripled-doggy-dared me, I have to take the pencil,’ so I still have it. I’m sorry William and I’m sorry Kate,” she said. “I honestly couldn’t sleep last night, I had to get it off my chest.”
News of Cabello’s secret pencil thievery made its way to the royals after BBC Radio tweeted out a clip of the interview and tagged their handle, @KensingtonRoyal. Their response? A simple “?” emoji.
We love cheeky royals with a sense of humor, but now we really need Cabello to share a photo of that pencil.
