Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who is Jewish, sat for the most extensive interview she has ever done about her curly hair on a new podcast, We Are Spiraling, the congresswoman’s staff told Priya Anand, a former journalist who launched the podcast and a hair product business recently.

“I embrace who I am ethnically, biologically,” she told Anand in the Nov. 24 episode , titled “the politics of curly hair.”

“It honors my ancestors, my mom, my grandparents,” she said in the interview. “You go across the globe and meet other Jewish women. That is a part of who we are.”

Wasserman Schultz told Anand about Vogue stylists softening her curls and facial features in a photoshoot for an October 2012 article in the magazine. The photoshoot was widely criticized, with many saying that

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