Posted on 05/03/2003 1:37:02 PM PDT by mhking
After 40 years with the same familiar look, Coretta Scott King has gotten a makeover -- and it's making its debut Monday in front of millions of TV viewers.
The 76-year-old widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King recently ran into Oprah Winfrey. Her old friend suggested that King be a part of her "age-defying makeover" show, airing Monday.
"Oprah did have to convince Coretta to be on the show," said a spokeswoman from Harpo Productions, which produces the hit show. "That in itself was a pretty big accomplishment."
But Winfrey was game for the challenge. "Even living legends need to spice it up every decade or so," she said on the show.
The talk show host pulled together an all-star team to give King her new look. Winfrey enlisted her own hairstylist, Andre Walker, and makeup guy, Reggie Wells, to work their magic. Then one of her favorite fashion designers, Bradley Bayou, dressed King in a cool black pantsuit.
King's hair color remains the same but it is slightly shorter, with a nice bounce. "It's also sleek and shiny," said the spokeswoman.
King was traveling on Friday and could not be reached for comment.
Winfrey wanted so much for King to love her makeover.
"I was up last night worried sick about today's show," she said at the beginning of the show, taped April 23.
But Winfrey didn't have to fret. Asked how she liked her new look, King replied on the show: "I feel great."
King's assistant of 20 years, Lynn Cothren, was more vocal during the taping. "She's always been beautiful, but now she looked younger and fresh," said Cothren of his boss.
Oprah agreed. On the show, she said to the designer Bradley: "This is fabulous!"
Others participants included Gayle King, Oprah's best friend, who assembled a team to make over her sister Caryn. The model Iman and actress Victoria Principal had teams in place to make over Oprah viewers.
"The Oprah Winfrey Show" airs Monday at 4 p.m. on WSB-TV.
What's-her-name didn't say she liked it. All she said was: " I feel great". Who knows, maybe her lumbago wasn't acting up that day.
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