In the video for Kelly Rowland’s new song Crown, teenage girls share the times when they were bullied, taunted and put down because of the way they looked.

“I was expelled from school for having braided hair extensions,” one girls says. Another’s hair was called “pigeon’s nest” and “rat’s nest”. “It really impacted how people saw me,” one child explained.

Rowland’s song Crown is a joyful, empowering ode to loving yourself and your hair. “I wear my crown, my hair, my crown,” Rowland sings. “It don’t matter how I wear it. It’s beautiful in every colour.”

According to the singer, the song is for every girl struggling to accept themselves and their hair, no matter the colour or the style. It’s a song for every teenager who has ever felt that they weren’t beautiful. And it’s a song that Rowland wishes she could have listened to when she was a young woman who felt that she never saw herself reflected in pop culture.

Kelly Rowland has an empowering beauty message for her younger self