I had been experimenting with different wigs for a while, and I had fun with colors and styles, but I found them so hot and uncomfortable that eventually I decided I was just going to ditch them. It took a while from there, but eventually I was happy sharing photos, though being seen bald in real life was still a daunting prospect. Everybody was really kind and supportive. I didn't want anyone to think I was after sympathy, and I had a really lovely reaction. I decided to tell the world and shared a bald photo on Facebook with the caption: 'The problem with having no hair is that when you put your makeup on, you don't know where your face ends #alopecia.' I realized I was living in fear of people realizing I was wearing a wig, and that I could remove that fear really easily by just letting everyone know that I had no hair. 'I'm an older fashion model-there is one last taboo'Įventually, I revealed publicly that I lost my hair.'I'm fat, I should not have to buy two seats on a plane'.'I Have Alopecia-Will Smith and Chris Rock Were Both Wrong'.

I tried to find one that looked as close as possible to my natural hair, so that nobody realized that it was a wig. For a while, it made me very depressed.Īfter a few weeks I decided to go shopping for my first wig, which my nanna bought for me. I had spent years struggling with my image-I've always been fat and had all the usual kinds of worries about my body up to that point, so losing all my hair made me feel as though I was never going to look good again. I was treated with steroid creams and tablets, but they didn't work for me. I don't believe anyone really knew what was causing it. I was told it was triggered by stress, but I wasn't under a particularly huge amount of stress at the time, so that conclusion never felt right to me. I went to see a dermatologist and was diagnosed with alopecia-a disease that occurs when the immune system attacks hair follicles. At first, I had no idea what was going on, but within two months I had lost all of my hair.

I was getting ready for my 40th birthday party when I found my first bald patch in 2017. Claire Naylor Photography/Ronald Dumont/Getty Images Lizi Jackson-Barrett disagrees with changes to the 1983 novel The Witches, including a passage explaining that witches in the book are bald beneath their wigs. Changes to Roald Dahl's children's books to make them more suitable to modern readers has sparked debate.

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