“Look at this line, here. Look at this. It just happened like that and it's going to be a little harder for me to hide it, "says Jada Pinkett Smith, running her finger over a totally bald white mark in the center of her scalp, which she says appeared" all of a sudden, one day. ” In this video posted on her Instagram account, the actress reveals to her ten million subscribers the severe effects of her autoimmune alopecia (a disease that attacks the hair follicles and causes partial or total "thinning" of the skull).
“Now at this point I can only laugh.
You all know that I fight against alopecia, ”she recalls, laughing.
"So, I thought I should share it so you don't ask questions."
Rather than camouflage it and make it a complex one, the actress prefers to accept her hair loss and even plans to adorn her shaved head with rhinestones to sublimate it: "I'm going to make myself a small crown", announces t -she all smiles.
A message of self-acceptance and an update that she wanted to broadcast so that "no one thinks she's had brain surgery or anything like that," she wrote in the caption of her post.
“This alopecia and I are going to be friends… period!”
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"It was time to let go"
An upheaval that has not always been easy for the actress to assume.
In 2018, Will Smith's wife had already mentioned her "hair loss problems" during an episode of her own television show
Red Table Talk
: "It was terrifying when it started.
I was in the shower one day with handfuls of hair in my hands.
I was like, "Oh my God, am I going bald?" "She confided to the screen.
Last July, Jada Pinkett Smith ended up shaving her head completely on the advice of her 21-year-old daughter Willow Smith: "Willow made me do it because it was time to let go," she wrote in caption of a photo posted on his Instagram account.
Promise kept.
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