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Ricki Lake Shaves Head, Reveals Ongoing Battle with Hair Loss
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4 years agoon
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Ricki Lake is starting the new year off by refusing to suffer through the “debilitating, embarrassing, painful, scary, depressing and lonely” condition that is causing her to lose her hair.
The 51-year-old opened up about her hair loss experience in a lengthy Instagram and Facebook post, where she debuted a fresh, new buzz-cut look.
“Suffering mostly in silence off and on for almost 30 years,” Lake captioned a shot of herself sporting her gorgeous new look. “I have been struggling with hair loss for most of my adult life. It has been debilitating, embarrassing, painful, scary, depressing, lonely, all the things. There have been a few times where I have even felt suicidal over it.”
“Almost no one in my life knew the level of deep pain and trauma I was experiencing,” Ricki bravely shared. “I know that by sharing my truth, I will be striking a chord with so so many women and men. I am not alone in this and my goal is to help others while at the same time unshackle myself from this quiet hell I have been living in.”
Ricki then went on to reveal her hair loss began after playing Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 movie Hairspray.
“They triple-processed and teased my then healthy virgin hair every 2 weeks during filming, my hair was never the same,” Lake shared. “I believe my hair loss was due to many factors, yo-yo dieting, hormonal birth control, radical weight fluctuations over the years, my pregnancies, genetics, stress, and hair dyes and extensions…I’ve been to many doctors, gotten steroid shots in my head, taking all the supplements and then some. My hair would recover and then shed again. It was maddening.”
But “no more,” Ricki told fans on Facebook of her decision to shave her head. “I have to be set free – it is a new year and a new decade and a new me.”
Ricki Lake is starting the new year off by refusing to suffer through the “debilitating, embarrassing, painful, scary, depressing and lonely” condition that is causing her to lose her hair.
The 51-year-old opened up about her hair loss experience in a lengthy Instagram and Facebook post, where she debuted a fresh, new buzz-cut look.
“Liberated and free,” Lake shared on social media, before reassuring fans she was not sick or having a mental breakdown.View this post on InstagramA post shared by Ricki Lake (@rickilake) on
“Suffering mostly in silence off and on for almost 30 years,” Lake captioned a shot of herself sporting her gorgeous new look. “I have been struggling with hair loss for most of my adult life. It has been debilitating, embarrassing, painful, scary, depressing, lonely, all the things. There have been a few times where I have even felt suicidal over it.”
“Almost no one in my life knew the level of deep pain and trauma I was experiencing,” Ricki bravely shared. “I know that by sharing my truth, I will be striking a chord with so so many women and men. I am not alone in this and my goal is to help others while at the same time unshackle myself from this quiet hell I have been living in.”
Ricki then went on to reveal her hair loss began after playing Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 movie Hairspray.
“They triple-processed and teased my then healthy virgin hair every 2 weeks during filming, my hair was never the same,” Lake shared. “I believe my hair loss was due to many factors, yo-yo dieting, hormonal birth control, radical weight fluctuations over the years, my pregnancies, genetics, stress, and hair dyes and extensions…I’ve been to many doctors, gotten steroid shots in my head, taking all the supplements and then some. My hair would recover and then shed again. It was maddening.”
But “no more,” Ricki told fans on Facebook of her decision to shave her head. “I have to be set free – it is a new year and a new decade and a new me.”
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