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Gabourey Sidibe addressed criticism of her toddlers' hair, saying she "didn't have kids" for the aesthetic in a post on Instagram Threads

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• Sidibe also further explained that she and her husband, Brandon Frankel, "sometimes do their hair several times a day"

• The actress welcomed her twins Cooper and Maya in April 2024

Gabourey Sidibeis shutting down criticism of her twins' hair.

In a post onInstagram Threads, theGive Me Back My Daughterstar, 42, slammed people who have made negative comments about her 23-month-old twins' hair. Sidibe, who shares her twins Cooper and Maya with husbandBrandon Frankel, said she'd be blocking anyone who left negative comments, adding she "didn't have kids" for the aesthetic.

"If you comment, telling me to do my toddlers[sic] hair, I'm blocking you," she wrote. "Their hair is always brushed, but they are active toddlers who play hard and aggressively launch into Head Shoulders Knees and Toes during lunch, so they get ketchup and eggs in it, so we sometimes do their hair several times a day."

"My daughter's hair is braided every week and when it gets fuzzy in an hour I don't immediately rebraid it because I didn't have kids for the esthetic[sic]," she added.

Sidibe continued telling her followers to "keep it cute," adding that "trying to impress the timeline with constantly manicured children isn't on my list of chores."

"So in closing, let's keep it cute cuz[sic] I'm fighting for my life as it is and trying to impress the timeline with constantly manicured children isn't on my list of chores," she wrote, before jokingly attaching a picture of her cat and wriitng, "Aaron will however be debuting the fresh box braids he got for his birthday trip to Punta Cana."

While Sidibe doesn't play when it comes to people criticizing her children, she can also find the humor in life as a parent of two. Back in February, the doting mom proved she'd do anything to make her kids look fabulous as she shared funny snaps of her children wearing her wigs onInstagram. TheEmpirealum joked that she was walking around bald, so her kids could look stylish in her hair.

"My head looks like this 🧑‍🦲 so that their heads can look this 👩‍🎤🧑‍🎤👨‍🎤," she joked.

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In the comments, her husband poked fun at the moment, writing, "You know you love them cuz you let them wear ya good wigs 😂😂❤️."

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Sidibe welcomed her kids in April 2024. Since then, she's shared the precious and special moments with them throughout the years. In November, she shared a picture onInstagramwith her twins as they visited her on the set of a project she was directing. In the picture, she held both of her twins while standing next to her director's chair.

"The twins visited me on set the other day. They STILL [aren't] allowed to watch screens tho," she captioned her post.

In the comments, Sidibe's husband showed some love to his wife. "Getting to watch them visit you at work and you simultaneously be a boss lady and the best mom is such an honor ❤️🥹."

Frankel also shared pictures from their visit on set on hisInstagram, expressing how proud he was of her.

"I'm really glad the twins and I were able to travel across the country so they could be reunited with mama@gabbysidibewhile she directed a new movie," he captioned his post. "Seeing them light up when they got to see her after weeks of her being gone (minus FaceTimes and videos daily) was magical. 🥹❤️ WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!!"

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Country music icon Loretta Lynn's successful career was marked with tragedy

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• Married at 15, Lynn raised six children while navigating a difficult and often turbulent marriage

• The country legend endured devastating losses, including the deaths of two of her children, Jack Benny Lynn and Betty Sue Lynn, before her death at age 90

Loretta Lynn built a legendary country music career on telling deeply personal stories with song — many of which were rooted in hardship, loss and resilience.

Born in rural Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, Lynn grew up in poverty as one of eight children in a coal mining family. Herbestselling 1976 autobiographyCoal Miner's Daughter, went on to become a 1980 box-office hit film that won a Best Actress Oscar for leading lady Sissy Spacek.

Her early life would go on to shape the candid songwriting that made her one of country music's most influential voices.

At just 15 years old, Lynn married Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn, a union that marked the beginning of a complicated and, at times, turbulent relationship. Together, they would go on to havesix children— four of whom she had given birth to by the age of 20: Betty Sue, Jack Benny, Clara Marie, Ernest Ray, and twins Peggy Jean andPatsy Eileen.

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By her late teens, she was already raising a growing family while navigating the demands of married life and a burgeoning country music career. In later years, Lynn described her husband as supportive of her work but also difficult in their personal life, acknowledging struggles that included infidelity and physical abuse.

Lynn's music career took off in the early 1960s with hits that reflected her lived experiences, including songs about marriage, motherhood and independence. Her 1975 hit, "The Pill," celebrated the birth control pill.

Speaking with PEOPLE in 2016, Loretta said her career was so intense in the early days that it wasn't unusual for her tomiss out on holidays and family time.

"I was working clubs, and I was doing like three and four shows a night," she recalled. Loretta even kept up with her busy schedule well into her pregnancy with the twins. "I'd play shows right up until the babies was born and that guitar around my neck just about killed me. I don't advise it to any mother."

Her personal life, however, would go on to be marked by profound tragedy.

In 1984, Lynn's eldest son, Jack Benny Lynn, died at the age of 34 in a drowning accident while attempting to cross a river on horseback at the family's ranch in Hurricane Mills.

A rescue team later found and retrieved his body from the river on the family's property and, at the time of Jack's death, Lynn was on tour. She checked into a hospital after falling unconscious due to extreme exhaustion. Her husband traveled from Tennessee to an Illinois hospital, where Lynn was recovering, to deliver the news of their son's passing in person.

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"She tore to pieces," her youngest, Patsy, told PEOPLE at the time. "They were very close."

Years later, in 2013, Lynn faced more heartache when her daughter, Betty Sue Lynn, died at age 64 due to complications from emphysema.

Inan Instagram tribute to her daughterin July 2022, Loretta described Betty as "feisty" and "fun." Most importantly, however, she said Betty had "a heart of gold."

Through these losses, Lynn continued to perform and remain connected to her fans, often channeling her grief into her music.

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In addition to personal loss, Lynn also faced health challenges later in life. Shesuffered a stroke in 2017and laterbroke her hip in 2018, both of which required extended recovery periods and limited her time on stage.

Sixteen months aftersuffering her stroke, however, Lynn told PEOPLE she wouldn't let her health troubles define her: “I wasn't goin' to let it stop me. You just can't sit down and say ‘Hey, take me.'”

Throughout the course of her career, Lynn earned multiple awards and accolades, becoming known for pushing boundaries with songs that addressed topics often considered taboo in country music at the time.

Lynn died on Oct. 4, 2022, at the age of 90 at her home in Hurricane Mills.

The countrymusic icon herself made several appearances(via video footage and recordings) at her own public memorial service weeks after her death, reflecting with her trademark humility on what she hoped her legacy would be.

"I would like to be remembered," she said in one video, "just as a good person."

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