Former TV presenter Ricki Lake shows off her transformation a year after her battle with alopecia

Former actress and TV presenter Ricki Lake has revealed her incredible hair growth following a lifelong struggle with male hormone alopecia.

Lake, 53, took to Instagram to share a side-by-side photo of her one-year transformation, saying she can finally be “at peace” with her struggle with hair loss.

In the photo, Lake shows her rapidly thinning hair, alongside her now full head hair.

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Hormonal alopecia areata is a common form of hair loss in both men and women, although it appears differently between the sexes.

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Lake famously shaved her head on New Year’s Eve 2019, before publicly revealing that she has struggled with the condition for decades.

She immediately shared a snap of her bald head, assuring her followers gently that she was unwell.

“Liberated and free, I. First of all, I’m not sick. (THANK GOD),” Lake wrote.

“I didn’t have a mid-life crisis. I didn’t have a mental breakdown, though I did. Suffering mostly in silence and repetition for almost 30 years. And I was finally ready. share your secrets.”

In her post, Lake shared the heartbreaking effects of hair loss and revealed that she even contemplated suicide.

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“Take a deep breath Ricki…. Here it is… .. I have struggled with hair loss for most of my adult life,” she revealed.

“It has made me depressed, embarrassed, painful, scary, depressed, lonely, all that. There have been a few times where I even wanted to kill myself because of it. Almost no one in my life knows the extent of it. my pain and deep hurt. went through. Even my therapist for many years didn’t know my truth.”

But late last year, Lake took to Instagram to reflect on her life-changing two-year journey.

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“Two years ago I took a leap of faith today,” she wrote. “I finally gave in and told of my decades-long struggle with hair loss (and baldness).

“It’s been terrifying and liberating. The journey since then has been such a gift. Loving yourself and accepting yourself is a wonderful path. And two years later, I’m absolutely grateful for the journey. submit.”

Since taking this leap, Lake has seen her scalp regrow completely, and even take it a step further, by turning gray.

In February 2021, Lake is open until Attractive about decision.

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“As women in this society, we shouldn’t embrace gray hair, but I’m really, really happy with it,” she said. “The colorists are saying to me, ‘You can’t bottle like that.” And in my 50s, it’s all about self-acceptance. “

She also revealed how much stronger her hair is now as she no longer sits on the couch for hours coloring.

“The quality of my hair is significantly better. It’s thicker, it’s stronger. It’s happier,” she says. “I think a lot of it has to do with not dyeing my hair anymore. I don’t sit in the hairdresser’s chair every day anymore.”

Her hair growth isn’t the only happy thing in Lake’s life – this year she’s entering 2022 in the happiest of ways, because married her fiancé, Ross Burningham.

The couple celebrated their nuptials in a quiet affair at her home in Malibu on January 3.

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