“It’s So Incredibly Disrespectful”: Doja Cat Defended Britney Spears After People Compared Their Shaved Heads

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Doja Cat spoke out about the comparisons people made between her and Britney Spears after shaving her head last year.

A closeup of Doja at an event rocking a shaved look and tri-colored paint down her bottom lip and chin
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Doja revealed over the summer that she'd buzzed off all of her hair — brows included — explaining that she just did "not like to have hair" because of all of the effort it takes to maintain.

Doja poses for photographers on the red carpet while wearing a long wig with bangs and shaved eyebrows
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"It’s just a fucking nightmare, dude. I’m over it," she stated.

A closeup of Doja with a shaved head and beads where eyebrows would be
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While some thought her new look was unique and cool, others criticized the move, with some going as far as to compare her to Britney Spears, who notably shaved her head in 2007 during what the media described as a public "meltdown."

A closeup of Britney in a sequined dress
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Doja recently told Variety that the comments were disturbing to her because they showed a complete lack of understanding and disregard for Britney and what she was going through at that time.

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James Devaney / WireImage

“It’s so incredibly disrespectful for people to be minimizing what Britney went through and make a joke out of something that was very serious and a big deal in her life," Doja said. "Every time I see a comment like that, I can’t compute what’s happening, other than it’s just an awful thing."

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Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images

She continued: “But other than that, when I shaved my eyebrows off and I shaved my head, I remember thinking, ‘Get this shit off of me,’ because I needed to change something."

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Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images

Doja said at the time, “I wasn’t working out and wasn’t really taking care of myself in the way that I wanted to. I was like, ‘I need to do something,’ so I just chopped it all off. And I could see the shape of my head. I could see my whole face. I can see my ears, now that I don’t have a wig that’s glued to my forehead.”

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Axelle / FilmMagic

She added that cutting off her hair is still "the best choice" she's ever made and that she's "never felt more beautiful."

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Emma Mcintyre / Getty Images for dcp

You can read the rest of what Doja had to say here.