Ayanna Pressley publicly reveals struggle with
alopecia for first time in powerful video
CBS News,
by
Danielle Garrand
Original Article
Posted By: shalimar,
1/16/2020 10:23:41 PM
Representative Ayanna Pressley opened up about her struggle with alopecia in a video interview published Thursday with the website The Root. The Massachusetts Democrat also revealed her bald head on camera for the first time.
The lawmaker, one of the four freshman progressive women in Congress known as "The Squad," said she first realized she had "some patches" in her hair last fall — as she was having her hair re-twisted, reported The Root.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby 1/16/2020 10:26:45 PM (No. 290570)
What is so powerful about it? Talk to the number of bald headed people and tgey don’t go about on a “pity party”
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
panther361 1/16/2020 10:33:57 PM (No. 290576)
Considering all of the times a woman's hair is assaulted with chemicals and tooling (rubber bands, curlers and color/bleach agents) it's a wonder they aren't all shiny bald. Women, you're beautiful without it. Warpaint also unnecessary.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
john56 1/16/2020 10:41:41 PM (No. 290587)
Oh, the shame. Some folks have to deal with cancer, Alzheimers, or other infirmaties. Fortunatly for them, it's not as bad as Ms. Pressley's bald spot.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/16/2020 10:44:15 PM (No. 290588)
Black women torment their hair and scalp with myriad chemicals, manipulations, and are known to have hair/scalp problems. It sounds as though she is going political with this, not just public.
Other than this, she is a colossal pain.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 1/16/2020 11:58:07 PM (No. 290607)
How does one have a “custom” wig made on hours? I know a woman with this condition and (this is how stupid I am) asked her once how she was able to have so many hairstyles. They were wigs.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
john56 1/17/2020 12:05:14 AM (No. 290609)
Maybe Ayanna and Auntie Maxine can share wigs.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LadyHen 1/17/2020 12:25:07 AM (No. 290618)
Black women and hair. I had no idea what a HUGE deal that was until I watched a documentary about it by Chris Rock called Good Hair. These women spend thousands and thousands on their hair. It's insane.
Were I to torture my head the way they do, I would be bald too let me tell ya!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 1/17/2020 5:07:22 AM (No. 290682)
Who cares.
Buy a wig.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MMC 1/17/2020 6:16:57 AM (No. 290705)
Ahh.. now we can never ever criticize her political beliefs because she has alopecia, is a woman, a minority, and a Democrat. In other words- un touchable-
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/17/2020 6:27:56 AM (No. 290716)
Will she get a handicapped tag for her car?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/17/2020 7:23:34 AM (No. 290741)
Her “Senegalese braids” too tight? Or were they hers?
Balding is apparently not at all unusual among black women. Reading what they are supposed to do to care for their hair in this linked article, one sees all the things they can do wrong. I can imagine that many don’t follow this protocol. I have seen women (and men) with hair pulled so tightly into patterns, braids, whatever, that is was almost screaming.
https://www.aad.org/care-african-american
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 1/17/2020 7:32:46 AM (No. 290749)
Its Trumps fault. She wigged out.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/17/2020 7:57:34 AM (No. 290776)
My daughter is a hair stylist. Every time Mooch came out in a new hairstyle and the media raved about it, my daughter said it was a wig. They were all wigs. Go back and take a look at her hair at PDT’s inauguration. That was her real hair.
Shtruggle on Ayanna. Nobody cares.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/17/2020 8:08:09 AM (No. 290787)
So she's missing some hair along with the brain matter that should be under it? Go buy one of those ten-pound hair weaves and you will have plenty to go around, or borrow one of Maxine's wigs. Easy fix.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/17/2020 8:24:00 AM (No. 290793)
Whenever I see a gripe about an article’s being posted here, I check to see what articles the complainer has posted. The answer is always the same. None.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
walcb 1/17/2020 8:30:57 AM (No. 290796)
It is usually caused by stress. Trump getting elected was the stress inducer.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 1/17/2020 9:37:30 AM (No. 290853)
There's gwine be a LOT of bald NFL and NBA players that will need wigs , too.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/17/2020 2:12:36 PM (No. 291103)
I found it especially amusing when Michelle, on a Monday, have relatively short, kinky hair, and on Tuesday would have long, striaght hair with bangs. And the Washington Post, and others, would rave about her beautiful hair.
They should have been complimenting the peasant women in Italy, who, I have read, provide much of the hair used in wigs.
I am also amused by NFL players with hair so long, it obscures their name on their jersey. That is kindergarten silly behavior.
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