Chris Rock’s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s alopecia has put hair loss in the spotlight. This is how online forums are helping women with the condition. 

Chris Rocku2019s joke about Jada Pinkett Smithu2019s alopecia has put hair loss in the spotlight. This is how online forums are helping women with the condition. 

Alopecia: the online forums helping women with hair loss

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When my hair started falling out in scarily large clumps – it felt like the end of the world

Women who look like me are not represented in the media but in a Facebook group, I suddenly saw myself represented every time I scrolled

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Internet forums made specifically for hair loss receive dozens of emotionally charged posts each day. 

“It changed my life”: how online hair loss groups are helping women with alopecia