Untangling Hair pt. 3: Losing It
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Why do we pretend women don't lose their hair? In the final episode of our series all about head hair, we wig out with Supriya Surender who began living more fully after alopecia areata left her fully bald. Then, hairstylist Dorin Azerad demystifies trichotillomania — her deepest, darkest secret growing up.
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| 0:00.0 | As a female, so much of your identity is tied to your appearance and specifically your hair. |
| 0:10.9 | And so watching myself lose my physical identity strand by strand and not having any control |
| 0:19.2 | over it, not being able to do anything to stop it was so frustrating, devastating, looking |
| 0:26.8 | in the mirror and seeing a face that looked so different than the face that I had gotten |
| 0:33.0 | used to for the past 30 some years was just an absolute mind-fuck. |
| 0:38.9 | Hey y'all and welcome to UnLadylike, I'm Caroline. |
| 0:59.4 | I'm Kristen. |
| 1:00.4 | Today we're wrapping up our three-part series Untangling Hair by talking about losing it. |
| 1:08.0 | Roughly 40% of people who experience hair loss are women. |
| 1:12.2 | So why do we pretend that balding only happens to men? |
| 1:16.1 | Because of beauty rules, Caroline. |
| 1:18.2 | Like while men can leave the house bald no big deal, women with noticeable hair loss |
| 1:23.3 | are often perceived as unwell or unfeminine. |
| 1:27.1 | In the words of our guest, Supriya Surrender, it is a mind-fuck. |
| 1:31.8 | I remember one day my big milestone was I walked outside of my apartment to get my uber |
| 1:38.3 | eats without a wig on and my boyfriend was with me and I was so scared and I made him |
| 1:44.0 | come with me because I was so nervous. |
| 1:46.8 | Supriya has alopecia area, which is an autoimmune condition that for her has resulted in total |
| 1:52.7 | hair loss. |
| 1:53.8 | Today, she's taking us along for her balding journey and how she came out the other |
| 1:58.1 | side. |
| 1:59.4 | And later, we're talking with Daren Azarad. |
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