Hold your head up, high

Updated On: 20 January, 2020 09:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Dalreen Ramos

That's what American actress Ricki Lake had to say after opening up about her 30-year battle with hair loss. We speak to experts for physical and psychological hacks that can help women cope with a scant crop

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Ricki Lake in 2017 and Lake on Good Morning America this month. Pics/ AFP, Instagram

Quiet hell. These two words, part of a long, long social media post put up by American actress and TV presenter Ricki Lake this month perfectly summed up what losing your hair, as a woman, feels like. And she's been fighting it for 30 years. "It has been debilitating, embarrassing, painful, scary, depressing, lonely... I have even felt suicidal over it," she wrote, detailing a journey of extensions, wigs and steroids. Lake attributes her condition to many factors including yo-yo dieting and hormonal birth control. Eventually, she decided to chop her locks off — "to be set free."

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