{"id":9531,"date":"2023-03-31T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=9531"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:07:46","slug":"9-year-old-tiana-akoh-arrey-wrote-an-inspirational-story-of-self-acceptance-after-being-bullied-for-her-hair-texture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/9-year-old-tiana-akoh-arrey-wrote-an-inspirational-story-of-self-acceptance-after-being-bullied-for-her-hair-texture\/","title":{"rendered":"9-Year-Old Tiana Akoh-Arrey Wrote An Inspirational Story Of Self-Acceptance After Being Bullied For Her Hair Texture<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nine-year-old Tiana Akoh-Arrey was bullied about her hair texture, but she turned the negative experience into a celebration of self-love through writing about it in her new book \u201cMy Afro: Twin Best Friends.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiana recounted to <\/strong>Ebony Magazine<\/strong><\/a> the story of how her affirming book came to be. <\/strong>\u201cOne day at school, a kid made fun of my Afro and said that it made me look like a lion,\u201d she said. \u201cThat made me really sad, so I asked my mom to straighten my hair to look like my other friends who did not have an Afro. She explained to me that I should learn to be proud and accept my hair as it is because it’s beautiful. I was trying my hand at writing short stories, so I decided to write about my hair.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gifted young writer began writing full sentences at only four years old, and she was just six when she wrote the uplifting story about her hair.  Her mother, Dorothy, was so stirred by her daughter\u2019s story that she submitted it to Conscious Dreams Publishing, who made Tiana a published author at the age of seven<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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