'Going bald within months aged 15 while studying for my GCSEs made me feel more confident'
universalis and told she would most likely lose all her hair and it was unlikely to grow back.
“I’d just had a haircut towards the end of 2017 when I first noticed the patch. It was only about 1mm and when I showed my mum she thought it might be a birthmark.” She says: “I was given steroid cream to use on the area to halt it spreading but it didn’t do any good.” She says: “I asked Mum to cut my hair for me but it was devastating and afterwards I didn’t recognise the person who stared back at me in the mirror. Not long afterwards I realised I was losing my eyelashes and even eyebrows too.”
“Mum would say, ‘Don’t let it stop you,’and my boyfriend Josh told me, ‘It doesn’t matter that you don’t have hair, you’re gorgeous.’As Imogen struggled to come to terms with her diagnosis she turned to national charity Alopecia UK.
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