'I'm trying to find my way here, and I do believe going public will help,' said U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley.
BOSTON — U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley revealed for the first time publicly Thursday that she is bald, opening up about about her struggle with a hair-loss condition called alopecia and explaining why her "black hair story is both personal and political.", Pressley, D-Massachusetts, said she felt she participated in a"cultural betrayal" when her hair recently fell out, noting how little girls connected with her braids.
Exclusive: Rep. Ayanna Pressley Reveals Beautiful Bald Head and Discusses Alopecia for the First Time She said she started waking up to sink-fulls of hair. She said she tried to employ "all the tools that I had been schooled and trained in throughout my life as a black woman because I thought that I could stop this." She tried wrapping her hair, wearing a bonnet and sleeping on a soaked pillow case. But nothing worked.
"I exited the floor as soon as I could and I hid in a bathroom stall. I felt naked, exposed, vulnerable. I felt embarrassed. I felt ashamed. I felt betrayed." Recounting the period after she became an elected official, Pressley said she initially wore wigs and hair extensions, but then got Senegalese twists down to her waist about four or five years ago.
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