The fact is quite simple. We heart Megan Follows.

“Megan, if you hear this, thank you for my red hair […] It was the Canadian series with Megan Follows, absolutely her, I love her. I can’t remember how I found it. I don’t remember if it was a teacher who played it for us, or if it was on PBS and so my parents let me watch it. But I became very fascinated and read almost all the books. I have the box set at home. I have never come across her, but I IMDb’d her just a couple of weeks ago, because I was wondering what she was up to. So I looked her up, and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve probably seen her in a bunch of these things.’ I probably just didn’t realize it was her because she wasn’t dressed in early 1900s school clothes. I’m a big fan of hers.”

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You’ve said you started dying your blond hair red at age 10. How exactly did you sell that choice to your folks?

They did it to me! I was obsessed with the Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something that spoke to me about her, and I wanted to have her beautiful red hair. So my mother said, “Let’s just go to the drugstore and get one of those cover-the-gray rinses!” My hair was very blond at the time, but it went carrot red. And I was over the moon. I went to school the next day and felt like myself. And then I went back [to that color] over and over again. What a cool mom, right?

-Los Angeles Times, July 2010