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What It's Really Like to Lose Your Hair in Your 20s

When she went completely bald at 26, it was other people's reactions that she struggled with the most

by Laura Zinger, as told to Emily Woodruff, Andrea Jordan  |  2 COMMENTS

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Embracing Baldness
Embracing Baldness When the doctor told me my only option was getting painful steroid shots into my head regularly, I decided to embrace the bald look. Losing my hair was sad, yes, but I wasn't completely devastated. I wasn't dying (alopecia is not life-threatening); I was just bald. But by the way people reacted to me, you would have thought I was dying. People would look at me like they were afraid. When people start acting afraid of you, it kind of freaks you out. I started asking myself, "Oh my God, is there something wrong with me?"

So after I lost most of my hair, I started wearing wigs. I decided that if I was going to wear a wig, I would have fun with it.

Photo by Michelle Kaffko, courtesy Laura Zinger

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