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'Alopecia is different for Black women - the Oscars slap was wrong but I get it'

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"Like the rest of the world, I was stunned when I heard about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. But when I watched the footage, the first thing that stood out to me was the look of discomfort on Jada Pinkett Smith’s face as a cruel joke was made at her expense.

I know that look, because I’ve made it many times myself.That is the reaction I give to every person who has said something nasty to me which is just a joke to them.

I’ve suffered with Alopecia areata for 20 years now. When I was nine, I started to develop little coin-sized patches of baldness on my head.The hair would grow back, and fall out somewhere else, and I would try desperately to hide the patches.

As I got older, it got progressively worse. I’d lost about 95 per cent of my hair by the time I was 17. It was quite a stressful time trying to manage my Alopecia and go to college, and when I ended up in hospital with a blood infection, it all just fell out.

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