{"id":1293,"date":"2026-05-07T23:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/joy-reid-cried-over-hair-makeup-challenges-early-in-tv-career\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:17:39","slug":"joy-reid-cried-over-hair-makeup-challenges-early-in-tv-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/joy-reid-cried-over-hair-makeup-challenges-early-in-tv-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Reid cried over hair, makeup challenges early in TV career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/127213285.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Joy Reid says she owes a lot to her glam squad \u2014 which briefly included Tamron Hall in a supporting role!<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/03\/media\/joy-reid-claims-horrified-msnbc-bosses-told-her-to-stop-posting-on-social-media\/\"> former MSNBC host<\/a> was honored at \u201cThe View\u201d hair stylist Derick Monroe\u2019s third annual \u201cBehind the Scenes Beauty Day Soir\u00e9e,\u201d and she opened up about the beauty challenges she faced during her early days at the ex-NBC cable network. Reid revealed she didn\u2019t have a team who understood black haircare and skincare, which left her in tears because \u201cmy image was less than it should\u2019ve been,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI walked into a media world that did not see me\u2026. I was being damaged. Not only was my image less than it should\u2019ve been, I was spending so much money to repair the damage that was being done to my hair, my face, my body, by people, who did not know,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Joy Reid opened up about the beauty challenges she faced during her earlier days on MSNBC.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cThe View\u201d hairstylist Derick Monroe honored Reid at his Behind The Scenes Beauty Day Soir\u00e9e. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reid added her appearance led her to second guess being a television broadcaster. \u201cI was crying. I didn\u2019t want to be on TV\u00a0 because I didn\u2019t look good and I didn\u2019t feel good about myself trying to just tell the truth and just do my job as a journalist,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Reid credited Tamron Hall, who was a host at \u201cToday\u201d at the time, for advocating for her with the brass to bring in a team who understood the nuance of skin complexion and textured hair. <\/p>\n<p>Reid said [Hall] marched into her boss\u2019s office and said, \u201cThis is unacceptable. This sister deserves better than this, and this has to change.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no black hair and makeup people in the studio at MSNBC. Not one! And overtime, thank God I actually was good at my job and I developed enough authority to be able to curate my own hair and makeup team,\u201d Reid said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Reid said there was not one black hair or makeup person in the studio when she started at MSNBC.  <span class=\"credit\">NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Reid thanked Tamron Hall for advocating for her at MSNBC.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Accessories Council<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheJoyReidShow\">now an indie-journalists with her own daily YouTube show<\/a>, thanked her entire glam squad and added the move allowed her to ensure that \u201cnot only myself, but my guests \u2013 because I was very intentional about having diverse guests, who were black and brown, Latina, who were AAPI \u2013 who were of all shapes and shades and sizes, and I wanted them all to look beautiful, because it\u2019s a visual media\u2026 so, as you were speaking, people could see and hear you,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Reid, pictured with pal Sunny Hostin, said she eventually curated her own beauty team.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The former MSNBC anchor now hosts her own daily YouTube series.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Monroe, who also hosts and produces the YouTube series \u201cBehind the Scenes Beauty,\u201d honored Rihanna\u2019s go-to hairstylist, Ursula Stephen, Oprah\u2019s main makeup artist, Derrick Rutledge, Oscar-winning costume designer Paul Tazewell, and Carol\u2019s Daughter founder Lisa Price, in addition to Reid. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/07\/society\/joy-reid-cried-over-hair-makeup-challenges-early-in-tv-career\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Reid says she owes a lot to her glam squad \u2014 which briefly included<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/127213285.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}