Anna Chakvetadze

Anna Chakvetadze is one of several tennis players that will be cutting their hair to donate it to locks of love. 

This is quite interesting. The LoL debate has never interested me much as in the end it's personal choice and if there is sometimes unreasonable pressure, then we live in a society which, through advertising, continually attempts to pressurize us into doing this or that, or buying this product or that product. However Huber did give the following explanation for needing lots of hair (and I don't know--or even care--if it's true or not:


It takes six donations to make just one wig and all the hair that Huber and her fellow tennis players are donating only makes a wig that is about shoulder length long. But the important thing is, they can make huge differences in the lives of children. For families with financial hardships, it can be a great help with good wigs costing around $5,000.

It occurred to me that this "pressure" can work two ways. Huber and many of her friends had short hair and grew it long specifically to donate: maybe some of those donators wil find they like the longer hair and, after thier 10 inch donation, decide to keep it long. Ann Curry used to have all sorts of terrible short cuts before growing her hair long for LoL. Since her donation, she seems to have understood that to maximize her good looks she needs longer hair--at least shoulder length.

So: the pressure can work two ways. Perhaps it will encourage some women who have always had short hair to grow it long in order to donate: "Hey, Pink, why don't you grow out that short pixie in order to donate to LoL?"