Lea Michele On Embracing Life’s Changes: ‘I Just Don’t Ever Get Stuck With Something’
July 29, 2019 by Justine Schwartz
SF: That’s a good segue to my next question, which is all about hair. Laura Polka recently gave you a long lob for summer–love it! Is changing your hair a way to express how your individuality is changing?
LM: I just don’t ever get so stuck with something. I’m sort of open to trying something new. Whether it might be, I want to cut bangs one day or I want to do my hair lighter. I kind of like that. And it really just depends on what I’m feeling. It’s like, “Oh, I feel like it’s time for a little bit of a beauty change.” And then, just embracing that. I think I cut my hair in my living room with Laura. I was like, “Can you just cut my hair? I just feel like, you know. I feel like a change.
And I’m a really big planner. I’m a type-A person. But I also am open to being spontaneous and being open to what life brings my way that I couldn’t have planned!
SF: As a type-A person, how do you deal with change if it’s not totally in your control?
LM: I talk about this in my speech for the Maxx You Project today, the story of leaving New York and moving to Los Angeles. And then, I never came back. I left. And I never planned to leave this city, and obviously it was an amazing opportunity, but it was a very big adjustment for me. Leaving my family behind, and all of my friends here in the city. It’s something that I couldn’t have planned for, but it was amazing, but it was a huge change in my life.