Gabriella Wilson is known by most of her fans as H.E.R.—the singer behind the signature shades with Grammy-award winning R&B songs and albums.
Of wearing the glasses, she previously told Variety:
"Honestly, the reason I wanted to be H.E.R. is because I felt people tended to focus on the looks of things instead of music - listening with their eyes and not their ears."
"It was a social media time of the whole package: 'This is what an artist should be; this is what a woman should be."
"So when I first released music, I wanted to be a silhouette - these truthful stories were what I wanted to show, not me."
More recently, however, she opened up on Good Morning America about letting people "get to know the person behind H.E.R.."
She said:
"I've been re-finding my voice. Now I'm not wearing glasses."
"I can't be acting and wearing glasses, so I think it's time for people to really get to know the person behind H.E.R.."
"Her is me, but at the same time, it's a new chapter of my life, and I think I'm really finding that connection, and I'm allowing people to see under the layers a little bit."
On Instagram earlier this week, H.E.R. posted photos and a video—sans glasses—with the caption, "In my purest form."
Viewers of the photos had to do a double take.
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Many also compared the small but mighty transformation to Superman and his reporter by day alter ego Clark Kent.
H.E.R. played Belle in the live action Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration which aired on December 15 on ABC.
H.E.R.—who is Black and Filipino—opened up about being a Disney princess on The View:
"I never thought I could be a Disney princess."
"Of course, every little girl wants to be a Disney princess, but I've never seen one that looks like me - so I get to be that to little girls now."
Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration is still streaming on Disney+.
H.E.R. is without her glasses in the special, but she's definitely hard to miss.
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