What Happened to My Hair?

My husband still comments on how my hair looked the night we met. I was coming down the stairs of my apartment building on Boston's Newbury Street, and the first thing he saw was my skinny legs, followed by a huge head of curly hair. I had spent the day running around and didn't have much time to get ready for our blind date, so my hair was full, fluffy and very very curly. I had lots of it, and it was pretty hard to manage. Since it was so thick and so curly, detangling it took quite a bit of time, and taming it took quite a bit of product. I was going through some old pictures, when I saw one taken nearly 15 years ago. I was standing out in the Miami sunshine with very long, thick curly hair blowing in the breeze. The curls were ropey, almost, and my virgin hair went from dark at the roots to yellow-orange at the ends. Fast forward a few years: I have been married more than 6 years, and during that time, my hair has changed. The change has been gradual, of course, so I can't really pinpoint a cause or a time, but I do know that it has become thinner (though still very thick), less curly, and less full overall. It's no longer unmanageable, and it only takes a minute or two to detangle when I have my conditioner in. I now apply hair products for shine and definition and control, but not to squash and weigh my hair down into submission. It's like having a completely different head of hair. I have no idea what caused such a dramatic change in my tresses, but it may be one or more of the following:
1. A couple of haircuts at Ouidad Salon in New York City, where they used their famous cutting technique to remove some of the heft from my hair
2. The fact that, like your skin, your hair naturally changes with age
3. Pregnancy. I've had friends tell me that pregnancy completely changed their hair

But the fact remains that I now have easier, more manageable hair at a time in my life when I desperately need things to be easy, so even though I (along with my husband) occasionally miss my formerly wild locks, I wouldn't trade this newfound ease for anything!