Ayanna Pressley reveals she has alopecia in a moving video.
"found that African Americans experience alopecia areata at a higher rate than other racial groups." Researchers looked at a sample size of 5,500 black women and found that 48% experienced some sort of hair loss. Pressley found herself in these statistics and, at first, didn't know how to process it. As more and more of her hair fell out, she said, she felt like she was losing more and more of herself.
"I had been waking up every morning to sink-fulls of hair. Every night I was employing 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. I wrapped my hair. I wore a bonnet. I slept on a silk pillowcase," she continued.
"And so Impeachment Eve, the last little bit of my hair came out. I was completely bald. And in a matter of hours, was going to have to walk into the floor, The House Chamber, House of Representatives and cast a vote in support of articles of impeachment. And so I didn't have the luxury of mourning what felt like the loss of a limb," she added. "It was a moment of transformation, not of my choosing. But I knew the moment demanded that I stand in it and that I lean in.
"I am making peace with having alopecia. I have not arrived there. I'm very early in my alopecia journey. But I'm making progress every day. And that's why I'm doing this today. It's about self agency. It's about power. It's about acceptance," she concluded. "It's so interesting to me that right now on this journey, what I feel the most unlike myself is when I am wearing a wig. So I think that means I'm on my way.
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