Hale said a challenging scene for her this year featured Maisha trying to find the right hairstyle for school picture day. “That scene was with my actual hair and that was definitely a tough process. But (showrunner) Miss Ayanna Floyd Davis was like, ‘You are representing a triple minority because you’re big and you are (an actress of) color and female — so you’re breaking all these stereotypes. So using your real hair is something these kids can relate to.’ It was tough for me at the time because I was looking really rough. They took all of the extensions out of my hair and they kind of wet it to make it look really rough and I was almost crying. But the way that it turned out in the episode, I was really proud of it.” When Maisha shows up at school the next day looking fabulous and literally throwing confetti as she walks in to get her photo taken, “I was like, oh, OK — this my Beyoncé moment!”