Journey Magazine Journey Magazine March 2019 | Page 9

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman
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      On January 3, the number of women
sworn into Congress made history, and
the vision of what congresswomen  look
like drastically shifted.
     There were women who wore their
hair in platinum ringlets, protective
twists, or covered with a hijab.
     And  there was the radiant Rep.
Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey,
who was sworn in with no hair at all. 
     Normally sporting a silver-gray pixie,
her new look is something she say s she
is still getting used to. "It’s not
necessarily something that I am
comfortable with. It is something that I
am living with."
    She says her hair came out in clumps
during chemotherapy treatments. After
trying wigs, she was dissatisfied with
how they looked. So, she boldly decided
to wear no hair at all. 
      Now cancer-free, she continues to
make her mark on the House Floor.  "If I
don't ever grow hair back, I can live with
that."
     A personal friend of Journey
Magazine, we know whatever she looks
like and whatever she does as a House
Representative, she will represent well.
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