Anthony Carrigan is opening up about his alopecia diagnosis. When he was 3-years-old, the 39-year-old Barry actor was diagnosed with alopecia areata, a disease that cases hair loss.
In his early 20s, Anthony revealed the “most terrifying outcome” of the disease – being rejected from acting jobs because of his appearance. Click inside to read more… “There was a moment where my alopecia had progressed so much so that I had lost pretty much half [of] my scalp, both my eyebrows [and] all my eyelashes,” Anthony shared with People. “It really threw everyone that I was working with, and no one knew what to do with me.” Anthony went on to say that as people were “scratching their heads” as to whether or not he could still have a career in acting, he said that he lost his confidence. “I was told by a number of people, you’re not going to be able to do this.
You’re not attractive anymore. You will fail if you try to do this,” Anthony recalled. “And I’m one of those people that if you told me that I can’t do something, I will.
Period.” Those reactions from people made Anthony want to act even more and prove all of them wrong. “What was left was just this kind of burning passion to do it anyway — to make it happen anyway,” Anthony said.
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