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Jessica Alba, the first woman to wear the »Rachel«?
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Photo: OConnor-Arroyo / Runway Manhattan / imago images
Many years ago, in the 90s, there was once a hype about hairstyles.
"The Rachel" was the name of the haircut.
A specialist portal calls the cut a variant of the »shag«, which creates »unique volume« on the wearer's head thanks to the many steps incorporated.
Jennifer Aniston wore the hair composition in her role as Rachel Green in the cult series "Friends", edited by stylist Chris McMillan.
Allegedly, that's why women all over the world asked about the voluminous haircut in the salon they trusted.
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Jennifer Aniston wears the "Rachel"
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It is said that Aniston wore it first.
But actress Jessica Alba has now rectified this alleged factual error.
She had the hairstyle before Aniston, she told Women's Health magazine.
And Alba didn't just cut it, but the inventor of "Rachel" himself. As a twelve-year-old Alba went to celebrity hairdresser Chris McMillan.
You met him at a casting for a music video.
McMillan then cut her medium-length, layered hairstyle for applications to model agencies.
Aniston thought it was "hideous"
"I loved the hairstyle very much," said Alba.
Her father, however, was not at all enthusiastic: "He wanted to put me under house arrest because he hadn't allowed me to have my hair cut beforehand."
With the information that her mother was there while the cut was made and that the hairstyle was also necessary for her work, she was able to appease him.
"In fact, I got a few modeling jobs because of the hairstyle."
Aniston herself apparently didn't think much of the cut: "That was the most hideous haircut I've ever seen," she said in a 2011 interview.
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