‘I Love How Much She Loves Your Curls’: Kaavia James Stole Hearts In Gabrielle Union’s Instagram Video That Showed Her Loving On Her Mother’s Kinky Curls

Kaavia James stole hearts in a new Instagram post by actress Gabrielle Union that shows Kaavia loving on her mama’s natural curls.

Gabrielle Union uploaded a video of her washing her hair using her own company’s hair products. Gabrielle captioned her video, “The most perfect me, the most perfect you.” 

I Love How Much She Loves Your Curls': Kaavia James Stole Hearts In Gabrielle Union's Instagram Video That Showed Her Loving On Her Mother's Kinky Curls
Photo: Kaavia James and Gabrielle Union Source: @kaaviajames/Instagram

The actress sashayed to the outside of her house where she was met by Kaavia, who kissed her forehead and called her hair “puffy.” Gabrielle laughed and replied, “mine is puffy.” In the next clip, the two were surrounded by other individuals, including Kaavia, as they all formed a huddle and shouted, “Brown skin! Brown skin” with their arms all together. 

Fans were enamored of Kaavia’s reaction to seeing Gabrielle’s kinky curls and applauded Gabrielle for being unafraid to embrace her natural hair in its shrinkage state in a tight curly style. 

“Kaavia is going to know just how beautiful she is, you are arming her to go out into the world without a doubt of her inner and outer beauty. Kudos Mommy [red heart].”

“The beauty in this gave me chills.”

“Love it. Instilling brown is beautiful when they’re young. My parents never did and I had to learn how to love my skin later in life.” 

“I love how much she loves seeing your curls.”

“Love how your daughter touches your hair with excitement.” 

“Yes, to love your shrinkage is to embrace the real you!” 

It’ll soon be a year since Gabrielle Union said goodbye to her long mane and began rocking her short cut. Many fans in the comments section expressed their love of her hair and how refreshing it is for them to see her display it. 

“Thank you for just inspiring and being so authentically you”

“Love the way you represent black women, just flawless in all ways.” 

“A crown of curls”

“Love the curls, rock them! Tell Hollywood you get to have curls in your next film”

“I love your hair natural like this” 

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