Former TV host Ricki Lake shows off one-year hair transformation after alopecia battle

Former TV host and actress Ricki Lake has revealed her wonderful hair progress following her lifelong battle with androgenetic alopecia.

Lake, 53, took to Instagram to share a side-by-side photograph of her one-year transformation, saying she might “lastly be at peace” together with her hair loss struggles.

Within the photograph, Lake exhibits her quickly thinning hair, subsequent to her now full head of hair.

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Androgenetic alopecia is a standard type of hair loss in each women and men, although it seems in another way throughout the genders.

For males, it often results in patches of baldness on the scalp and a receding hairline, although in girls thinness happens throughout your entire scalp, and barely ever results in whole baldness, in line with Well being Direct Australia.

Lake famously shaved her head on New 12 months’s Eve in 2019, earlier than publicly revealing that she had been fighting the situation for many years.

She instantly shared a snap of her bald head, assuring followers in a light-hearted means that she wasn’t unwell.

“Liberated and Free, Me. First issues first, I’m not sick. (THANK GOD),” Lake wrote.

“I’m not having a mid-life disaster. nor am I having a psychological breakdown, although I’ve been struggling. Struggling largely in silence on and off for nearly 30 years. AND I’m lastly able to share my secret.”

In her publish, Lake opened up concerning the heartbreaking impacts of hair loss, and revealed she’d even contemplated suicide.

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“Deep breath Ricki…. Right here goes….. I’ve been fighting hair loss for many of my grownup life,” she revealed.

“It has been debilitating, embarrassing, painful, scary, miserable, lonely, all of the issues. There have been just a few 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 over time knew my fact.”

However on the finish of final yr, Lake took to Instagram to mirror on her life-changing two-year journey.

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“2 years in the past right this moment I took a leap of religion,” she wrote. “I lastly surrendered and got here out about my decades-long battle with hair loss (and shaved my head).

“It was so scary and so liberating. The journey since has been such a present. Self-love and acceptance has been the good takeaway. And a pair of years later, I sit in whole gratitude for the journey.”

Since taking this leap, Lake has loved whole regrowth on her scalp, and even gone one step additional, by going gray.

In February 2021, Lake opened as much as Attract concerning the choice.

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“As girls on this society, we’re not imagined to embrace gray hair, however I am actually, actually proud of it,” she stated. “Colourists are saying to me, ‘You may’t bottle that.’ And being in my early 50s, it is all about self-acceptance.”

She additionally revealed how a lot more healthy her hair is now that she’s not sitting in a salon chair for hours getting it colored.

“The standard of my hair is simply dramatically higher. It is thicker, it is more healthy. It is simply happier,” she stated. “I feel quite a lot of it has to do with not colouring my hair anymore. I am not sitting in a chair getting my hair finished on daily basis anymore.”

Her hair progress is not the one glad factor in Lake’s life – this yr she entered 2022 within the happiest of how, by marrying her fiancé, Ross Burningham.

The pair celebrated their nuptials in a quiet affair at her Malibu residence on January 3.

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