John Travolta’s Daughter Ella Bids Farewell To Signature Black Hair Ahead Of 24th Birthday

Ella Tra­vol­ta is cel­e­brat­ing her 24th birth­day, and as she embarks on a new year of liv­ing, she’s embrac­ing a new style for her hair. Much like her dad, Grease icon John Tra­vol­ta, Ella has long bore a sig­na­ture head of dark hair, usu­al­ly kept long and flow­ing past her shoul­ders. That changed just ahead of her 24th birth­day, with Ella shed­ding much of its length for a springy change. But that’s just a small piece of what’s been going on with the famous fam­i­ly late­ly.

John Tra­vol­ta shares Ella, along with 13-year-old son Ben­jamin, with fel­low actor Kel­ly Pre­ston. Trag­i­cal­ly, Pre­ston died when she was 57, hav­ing suc­cumbed to can­cer back in 2020. John has been work­ing dou­bly hard to be a good dad and a shoul­der for his kids to lean on as they nav­i­gate their grief and the major mile­stones in life. For­tu­nate­ly, they have had cause for cel­e­bra­tion, and reprieves from life’s typ­i­cal tumult, along the way

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Ella Tra­vol­ta cel­e­brat­ed her 24th birth­day on April 3, and ahead of the big day, she showed off a new look for her hair that’s unlike any style she’s had in quite some time. On the eve of the big day, she took to Insta­gram to show off a sun­ny self­ie of her with a serene smile. Ella is dressed in black, match­ing her hair, but the atmos­phere is warm and joy­ful, an upbeat pre­lude to sum­mer tied togeth­er by her chin-length cut

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“Fresh cut grass,” Ella cap­tioned the post, to great approval from dad, who sound­ed off in the com­ments with, “Ella this is a stun­ning pho­to I love it!” It’s uncer­tain how the pic­ture was tak­en, or exact­ly by whom, but Ella gave all cred­it for the style to hair styl­ist and col­orist Aman­da Lee, who is based in Los Ange­les. Lee’s resume includes col­lab­o­rat­ing with Megan Fox, Kylie Jen­ner, Hai­ley Bieber, and more.

Liv­ing along­side big Hol­ly­wood names like this is noth­ing new for Ella, who is indeed pur­su­ing a career in the lime­light. Despite being the daugh­ter of two renowned actors, how­ev­er, Ella is build­ing a music career for her­self. In fact, she’s already well on the path to artis­tic suc­cess.

What is John Travolta’s daugh­ter doing now?

Both Ella and her lit­tle broth­er Ben­jamin grew up famil­iar with Hol­ly­wood but with a healthy dose of pri­va­cy regard­ing their per­son­al lives. That was for their ben­e­fit before and espe­cial­ly after the untime­ly pass­ing of their moth­er in 2020. In a 2021 inter­view with EsquireMex­i­co, Tra­vol­ta said mourn­ing Preston’s pass­ing “has been a per­son­al, pri­vate jour­ney” for the dev­as­tat­ed fam­i­ly; the fam­i­ly also grieves for the couple’s oth­er son Jett, who died at 16 in Jan­u­ary 2009.

The two sib­lings have appeared more and more in the pub­lic eye as the years went on, how­ev­er, Ben­jamin to a much less­er extent; his dad still proud­ly shows off his remark­able gym­nas­tics skills when the occa­sion calls for it.

Ella is already famil­iar with the lime­light / Insta­gram

As for Ella, she shares both can­did and pro­fes­sion­al con­tent on her Insta­gram account, which by the time of writ­ing boasts over 700k fol­low­ers. Her feed is pop­u­lat­ed by trib­utes to her mom, heart­warm­ing moments with the fam­i­ly, her dad being an unabashed­ly goofy gamer pro­mot­ing God of War Rag­narokfor the PlaySta­tion, and her own lat­est projects and cam­paigns. For exam­ple, last win­ter she showed off a pro­mo star­ring her­self as one of the new faces for Silk Nextmilk. For this cam­paign, Ella also worked with Sailor Brink­ley-Cook and Brook­lyn Beck­ham to recre­ate their par­ents’ orig­i­nal Got Milk? ads.

But per­haps her great­est pas­sion of all is relat­ed to the music scene.

What does John Travolta’s daughter do?

After build­ing expe­ri­ence with act­ing and mod­el­ing, Ella start­ed focus­ing on music in earnest in 2021, though even then, she had already dipped her toes into the melo­di­ous world of music while work­ing with her dad. In 2009, Ella and Tra­vol­ta worked togeth­er on “Every Lit­tle Step,” which appeared in Old Dogs, star­ring Tra­vol­ta and Robin Williams.

Her first sin­gle, “Dizzy,” start­ed as a Tik­Tok chal­lenge, and has since devel­oped a loy­al fan­base. The song, a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Just Sec­onds Apart, hit the air­waves in 2022. That same year, Ella also cel­e­brat­ed the release of “No thank you.”

All the pieces are falling into place for a reli­able stream of suc­cess. No expo­sure to the Hol­ly­wood glam­our has seen Ella any­thing less than appre­cia­tive and lov­ing when it comes to her fam­i­ly. Indeed, Ella is dili­gent when it comes to shar­ing trib­utes to her loved ones, with Travolta’s 70th birth­day on Feb­ru­ary 18 earn­ing him a trib­ute that left not a sin­gle dry eye among read­ers.

Hap­py Birth­day to the man who is always by my side and who is always bring­ing light and beau­ty into this world,” Ella had post­ed on Insta­gram, accom­pa­nied by an adorable pho­to of her­self and Tra­vol­ta from years ago, with her hair appear­ing not too dif­fer­ent­ly from how long she has it now. Ella fin­ished the sweet mes­sage with, “I love you to the moon and back.”

There was only one thing Tra­vol­ta could say in response: “And I always will be Ella my baby girl.” His baby girl, and a music artist who is man­ag­ing some nos­tal­gic ad cam­paigns, it should also be said!