21 Female Celebrities Who Opened Up About Hair Loss

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Tisdale was first identified with alopecia areata in her mid-20s, and now, she’s opening up about it. 

She revealed to People on Dec 2024 that she “began to be means nicer to my hair and my scalp.”

“I used to play with a whole lot of colours and dye my hair and bleach it, and I actually haven’t been vibrant blonde since then,” she added. “I used to put on extensions and I finished doing that as effectively. I actually began simply treating my hair higher and mainly figuring out that I couldn’t take it as a right. So I deal with my hair higher and never stress it out a lot.”

Jada Pinkett Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith first opened up about her alopecia diagnosis in 2018 and later shared proof of her personal hair loss journey on Instagram in 2021: “Have a look at this line proper right here,” Pinkett Smith stated within the video, mentioning a few of the newer naked patches. “Now that is going to be slightly bit harder for me to cover, so I assumed I’d simply share it so y’all not asking any questions — however you understand, mama’s going to place some rhinestones in there, and I’m going to make me slightly crown.”

Extra just lately, the Crimson Desk Discuss host has spoken about eager to carry the disgrace round alopecia by speaking extra brazenly about it, together with in her 2023 memoir, Worthy. “Lots of people that suffer from alopecia have disgrace about their situation,” Pinkett Smith told SheKnows in October 2023. “And one of many issues about this ebook that I’m hoping, you understand, folks will embrace and obtain is that there’s no have to have disgrace about any of it.”

Christina Milian

Christina Milian says she skilled postpartum hair loss after her first two pregnancies and, because of a stable quantity of analysis on post-pregnancy hair loss, was extra ready for it after welcoming her third little one Kenna in April 2021. 

“With my first two kids, and most particularly with Violet, I’d say someplace between 4 and 6 months [after birth] I seen hair loss,” Milian instructed SheKnows. “It simply saved taking place, I washed my hair and subsequent factor I do know it was in my arms… It was scary, like ‘what is going on proper now?’”

She stated she felt self-conscious about the way in which it regarded and felt and that there was no info on the market and few folks speaking concerning the concern outdoors hyper-specific mom-centric blogs. So she turned to her gynecologist:”He broke it down for me and instructed me to observe my eating regimen, however he additionally stated it’s not solely the ends of your hair — it’s additionally about focusing in your scalp.” 

Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande skilled hair loss and harm courting again to her time on Nickelodeon’s Victorious, when she needed to bleach and dye her hair each week to attain her character’s signature crimson locks. In a 2014 Facebook submit, the singer defined that the method “utterly destroyed my hair,” and he or she started sporting a ponytail often as a result of “my precise hair is so damaged.” Grande defined that the model was what “works for me now,” including that it was serving to her really feel snug “for the primary time in years.”

Viola Davis

Viola Davis started experiencing hair loss from alopecia areata at 28 years previous. After she discovered her balding was from stress, she internalized the battle till she discovered to embrace her hair for what it was. “I awoke sooner or later, and it regarded like I had a Mohawk. Huge splash of bald on the highest of my head,” Davis instructed Vulture in 2014. “I used to be like, ‘What is that this?’ Till I came upon it was stress associated. That’s how I internalized it. I don’t do this anymore. My favourite saying on this planet is, ‘The privilege of a lifetime is being who you’re.’ I’m telling you, I’ve spent a lot of my life not feeling snug in my pores and skin. I’m simply so not there anymore.”

As a result of she was embarrassed by her hair, Davis acquired into the behavior of sporting wigs wherever she went. It wasn’t till she was older that wigs, which she nonetheless wears, turned an choice, not one thing to cover behind.

“I by no means confirmed my pure hair,” Davis stated. “[The wig] was a crutch, not an enhancement. I used to be so determined for folks to suppose that I used to be lovely. I needed to be liberated from that [feeling] to a sure extent.”

Lea Michele

Glee‘s Lea Michele opened up about her expertise with postpartum hair loss in early 2021, a couple of months after giving start to her first little one. 

“The postpartum hair loss is REAL,” Michele wrote on her Instagram Story on the time, alongside a photograph of a clump of hair that hand fallen out. “Having fun with this lengthy hair whereas it lasts as a result of the mother bob is correct across the nook.”

Lili Reinhart

In a 2024 TikTok, Lili Reinhart revealed that she was identified with alopecia whereas “within the midst of a significant depressive episode.” The Riverdale star recorded the video whereas present process crimson mild remedy, which she referred to as her “new finest pal” within the caption. (Per the Cleveland Clinic, crimson mild remedy has been promoted as a means to enhance hair progress in folks with alopecia.)

Khloé Kardashian

Khloé Kardashian acquired COVID early on within the pandemic (March 2020) and stated the virus brought on her to lose “an excessive amount of my hair.” It fell out “in chunks,” she instructed Refinery29 in 2021 and made the truth star really feel “actually bummed — you don’t be ok with your self,” she stated. A number of months later, Kardashian discovered from her physician that she wasn’t alone in pondering COVID brought on her hair loss. It ended up being a short-term downside, as Kardashian stated she’d seen “such a distinction in my hair” a 12 months and a half later. She attributed the renewed progress to endurance, collagen, and DIY hair masks.

Kristin Davis

After she wrapped the ultimate season of Intercourse and the Metropolis, on which she performed Charlotte York, Kristin Davis started experiencing hair loss. “My hair simply was not what it was,” Davis instructed Women’s Wear Daily in 2017. “It was very advantageous, prefer it had gone away, there simply was hardly any hair there. [It] was at all times very troublesome hair, which nobody believes once I inform them — it’s at all times been not fairly that straightforward, however as a result of I had a whole lot of hair the professionals might assist me make it look good. It’s not like I awoke and I had Charlotte hair.”

At first, Davis ignored it and focused on different elements of her life. However when she tried to do her hair sooner or later, she realized she didn’t have a lot left. That’s when she turned to Volaire hair-volumizing merchandise on the suggestion of her hairstylist, Luke O’Connor. Davis was such a fan of the merchandise that she later turned the model’s ambassador.

Keira Knightley

After color-treating her hair for years, Keira Knightley noticed that her hair was falling out. The hair loss turned so dangerous she wore wigs for 5 years till her hair grew again after she turned pregnant along with her daughter, Edie, in 2015.

“I’ve dyed my hair just about each coloration possible for various movies. It acquired so dangerous that my hair actually started to fall out of my head!” Knightley instructed InStyle U.Okay. in 2014, per People. “So for the previous 5 years I’ve used wigs, which is the biggest factor that’s ever occurred to my hair.”

Selma Blair

Selma Blair started to expertise postpartum hair loss after she gave start to her son, Arthur, in 2011. In an effort to maintain it actual, Blair — who like many mothers skilled the hair loss from altering hormones — opened up concerning the chunks of her hair that will fall out within the bathe and the way she would flaunt her bald patches as an alternative of sporting extensions.

“That is so not glamorous, nevertheless it’s true: I have to take longer showers in order that I can accumulate the hair that falls out and throw it away so I don’t clog the drain. Why do actresses by no means discuss that?” Blair instructed People in 2011. “It simply began falling out on the three-month mark. And I’m not a lady who likes extensions, so Selma’s going to be bald!”

Tyra Banks

Like lots of people, Tyra Banks started expertise alopecia areata, the medical time period for spot baldness, from stress. Her stress reached an all-time excessive when she was writing her 2011 ebook, Modelland, which resulted in her dropping her hair.

“Actually, chilling for me was consuming a meal,” she instructed The Wall Street Journal in 2011. “I couldn’t simply have a look at the ocean. And in hindsight that wasn’t wholesome. How can I say this with out tearing up? I acquired slightly alopecia from the stress.”

Ricki Lake

After 30 years of silently coping with her “debilitating” hair loss, Hairspray star Ricki Lake opened up about her battle and took the plunge of shaving her head — and he or she says it taught her a lot about herself, her self-image and the neighborhood she surrounds herself with.

“I’ve been fighting hair loss for many of my grownup life,” she wrote in a robust Instagram submit the time. “It has been debilitating, embarrassing, painful, scary, miserable, lonely, all of the issues. There have been a couple of occasions the place I’ve even felt suicidal over it. Virtually nobody in my life knew the extent of deep ache and trauma I used to be experiencing. Not even my therapist/s through the years knew my fact.”

In 2021, Lake revealed that she’d partnered with hair progress and scalp well being model Harklinikken, which she credit for serving to her hair develop again. “It’s higher than it was. It’s more healthy and extra vibrant than I ever thought doable,” she stated on The Drew Barrymore Show on the time. “Folks that don’t undergo hair loss, they will’t actually relate. They don’t perceive, nevertheless it was a giant deal,” she continued. “It was one thing that consumed my life. So now that I’m on the opposite aspect of it… I’m in a spot of peace and pleasure, which I didn’t anticipate or see coming.”

Naomi Campbell

After rough-handling her hair for years with extensions and weaves, Naomi Campbell skilled important hair loss. She revealed to Evening Standard she “misplaced all of it.” Since then, Campbell has develop into extra cautious along with her hair, resulting in most of her bald spots rising again. “I do take extra care of my hair now, as a result of I misplaced all of it with extensions,” Campbell stated. “I’m extra cautious, and I do various things.”

Neve Campbell

Neve Campbell began dropping her hair when she was as younger as 23. The alopecia areata was brought on by stress from the Scream actor’s profession, a divorce she was going by on the time, and stalkers.

“I used to be horribly overworked and going by a divorce,” Campbell instructed The Daily Mail in 2011. “Additionally, I had stalkers and began receiving threatening mail. I used to be so distressed by all of it that my hair began falling out. Life hasn’t at all times been a bowl of cherries.”

Rosie O’Donnell

Rosie O’Donnell revealed her battle with hair loss on Twitter with a makeup-free photograph displaying off her bald spots. The comic revealed that her hair loss was brought on by ageing, which is frequent in girls over 40. “male sample baldness … ageing is enjoyable,” she wrote on Twitter in 2016.

Jesy Nelson

Former Little Combine member Jesy Nelson started experiencing hair loss when she was as younger as 13. In an interview with Fabulous journal in 2012, per Daily Mail, the singer revealed she was bullied due to her alopecia areata, which brought on noticeable bald spots from stress.

“I used to be in all probability about 13 when my hair simply began popping out,” she stated. “Stress could cause alopecia, and it wasn’t good. I acquired picked on as a result of I’ve at all times appreciated to decorate otherwise. I’ve by no means actually needed to slot in with everybody else.”

Tamar Braxton

Tamar Braxton skilled hair loss after the start of her son, Logan, in 2013. Although followers of her present Braxton Household Values tried to return for her about her edges, she set them straight.

“When u HAVE your child …(my son) your hair falls out!!” she wrote on Instagram, per Madame Noire. Braxton additionally took the chance to provide a shout-out to her favourite hair oil, Simplicity Hair Oil, for serving to her nurture her scalp and hair again to life.

Kayla Itsines

Health influencer and Sweat app founder Kayla Itsines usually had followers remark to ask about her lengthy, thick ponytail. In a 2017 Instagram submit, the Sweat app founder revealed she makes use of clip-in hair extensions on account of her “genetically actually skinny hair.” Her mother and grandmother each have skinny hair, and Itsines says it’s “one thing I’ve come to phrases with through the years.” She described her skinny hair as a “little insecurity” and stated she might see it thinning extra as she acquired older. “I’ve tried all the pieces to repair it, belief me. However, on the similar time, I’m at peace with it and I can’t let it rule my life. So as an alternative I give attention to being wholesome and completely satisfied.”

ZaraLena Jackson

It wasn’t till 2020 that ZaraLena Jackson, who starred on the truth sequence Ex on the Seaside, found she had alopecia universalis, an autoimmune situation that causes hair loss everywhere in the head and physique. Jackson went on to lose all her hair in six weeks, a course of that began when the influencer broke out in rashes throughout her physique. Every week later, she instructed Look Fantastic, she seen a bald patch on the entrance of her head. “I used to be like ‘Oh my God! I’m dropping my hair, I’m bald!’” she recalled. “I didn’t anticipate what was going to occur.”

Jackson skilled nervousness, panic, and desperation as she misplaced her hair with out figuring out why. After getting identified, she started in search of therapies whereas sharing her expertise on social media. Ultimately, the truth star began taking a JAK inhibitor, a drugs that helps to cut back irritation and is used to deal with different autoimmune circumstances like eczema, vitiligo, and psoriatic arthritis, per the American Academy of Dermatology Association. After a 12 months on the therapy, Jackson had “full regrowth” of all of the hair on her head, face, and physique, she stated on TikTok.

Olivia Bentley

Olivia Bentley, a star of the British actuality sequence Made in Chelsea, stated she started experiencing alopecia and hair loss at age 16, after she began taking the contraception tablet. Bentley recalled being bullied for her hair. “It made me really feel actually insecure,” she wrote in an essay for The Sun in 2022. “I couldn’t perceive why it was taking place to me.”

Bentley ultimately accepted her hair loss and even ditched the lengthy wig she usually wore. “The wig was a protecting factor and I wouldn’t go anyplace with out it,” she instructed The Sun in 2021. “Life is a lot extra snug now. It was like sporting a woolly hat on a regular basis… Not having to cope with that any extra feels liberating.”

Gail Porter

Scottish TV persona and actress Gail Porter misplaced her all her head and physique hair to alopecia in 2005. She’s skilled intermittent regrowth, however has embraced being bald and infrequently wears wigs. “Completely nothing can break me and I do know I’m a really fortunate human,” Porter instructed followers on Instagram in 2022, whereas sharing that her eyebrows and eyelashes had been falling out after “alopecia had a very good previous go at me once more.” Porter continued, “Greater than one million extra vital issues on this world, however anybody that does get scared about dropping your hair… you’ve acquired this. Consider me.”