Cut to later that week, when the entire country shut down because of the rampant spread of COVID-19, at which point, Ripa was no longer able to touch up her gray roots at the salon as they grew in (via People). Ripa, like so many others during that time, resorted to desperate measures. “During the early days of the pandemic, I had embraced my gray hair privately while publicly I was using brown eyeshadow to paint my roots some shade that wasn’t Santa Claus white,” Ripa admitted on an episode of “Live with Kelly and Ryan.”
The pandemic found many women embracing their natural hair color — and Ripa considered being one of them. “Cher was saying that gray hair is not for her. She is not caving in, she doesn’t care about the trend — you know, people are embracing their gray hair all over the place. Everybody’s embracing their gray hair,” Ripa said.
But the host ultimately decided that going gray was not her way. “I need to dye my hair,” Ripa declared, with the caveat that dyeing one’s hair is a personal choice, and that she doesn’t think that all women should necessarily follow her lead. “I think certain people look great with their gray hair. I think it depends on the person. I really do.”
