Her next issue? Hair extensions!
In her most recent online entry, baldly titled “Yes, I Wear Fake Hair,” McCain reveals that Tyra Banks‘ television appearance without her weave inspired her own admission:
Not all the hair attached to my head is real. Yes, I have been wearing different variations of permanent and semi-permanent hair extensions since high school. Even as far back as
middle school if you count the banana hairclip with the sliver of hair attached to it I wore to my eighth-grade dance.
She continues, calling the possibility of an appearance without fake hair “almost unthinkable,” but attempts to maintain her young, hip outsider status by sharing this anecdote in which she rebelled against uptight Republicans:
On the night my father accepted his nomination for president, I wore a giant Madonna ponytail extension (circa her Vogue tour)— much to the dismay of some of the campaign advisers, I might add.
Women, she explains, don’t just wake up looking pretty, and a real woman knows that it’s all about moderation: sometimes it’s okay to be yourself, but other times “it’s OK to get a little extra help when sometimes Mother Nature doesn’t give you everything you want.” This idea seems reasonable enough and that’s exactly how McCain, painlessly crafting her image, wants to be perceived. She spells out for her readers how they’re supposed to feel about her confession, noting that women “seemed to appreciate the fact that I was being real.”
Possibly, but that doesn’t mean it’s not manufactured. And with the soapbox with which she’s been anointed, and the chaotic levels of the current political discourse, are petty issues like this really the best use of her growing voice?