Top 15 Jennifer Ashton Quotes

Experiment with different types of things, whether they are fun hats or scarves or even wigs,

That doesn't mean [hair] still can't be fabulous. It just means it requires a different approach.

"Be kind and gentle and patient with yourself as an older woman," she said. "Don't only be gentle with yourself figuratively, but literally. You can't do the same heat, the same pulling, the same processing and styling as a woman who is middle-aged."

I protect my hair as much as possible," she said. "I don't think in a given week, I'm ever fully blowing out my hair. I'm either letting it air-dry naturally if it's a weekend, or I'm coming in with it wet for work and I'm just having the front blown out and I put the faux-ponytail on so that it's reasonably presentable for TV."

"That means making sure your diet is good, making sure that you're getting enough protein, that you're getting enough zinc, that you're getting enough folic acid, all of those are important for hair growth," she said, adding, "Your styling and grooming habits are incredibly important."

It's something that almost every woman, if she's being honest, will deal with basically from menopause on.

"Due to a variety of factors, hair takes a hit," Ashton said of the perimenopause and menopause phases. "It grows less. It gets thinner. It's more vulnerable and more delicate and it can lose some of its luster."

"The earlier we all prioritize the health and well-being of our hair, the better [it] will be across our lifetime,

"Aggressive color, color process or heat process on a long-term basis is absolutely going to damage hair. That's a fact," Ashton said. "So, it's a matter of is it worth it? How much are you going to damage it, and for how long?"

Roughly every decade there is a change in hair," Ashton said, adding, "With age, all of us will have a change in our hair."

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There is so much stigma about mental health as well as blame. I felt that blame when my ex-husband passed.

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