In the first episode of the final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty , Jeremiah Fisher tells his girlfriend (and, later, fiancée), Belly Conklin, “Hey, don’t ever cut your hair, okay?” As if that wasn’t enough of an impetus to chop off her locks, a broken engagement and a soul-searching trip to Paris certainly got Belly over the finish line. At the end of the penultimate episode, Belly hinted at her intentions when she walked into a Parisian salon. Now, as the show draws to a close, she is beginning a new chapter with her much shorter ’do. In the words of one very wise woman, “ Claire, it’s French! ”
“I was excited when I learned that Belly was getting a bob,” Lola Tung , who plays Belly, tells Vogue. “It’s nice to see her make that decision for herself, almost as a physical