Glamour. “And losing my hair was the worst part for me.” To a person without a cancer diagnosis, this might be shocking. But for Spangler, it makes sense. “It was part of my identity,” she says of her hair.
Every woman who spoke to Glamour for this article used “identity” or a similar word to describe hair. “I have women who don’t leave the house because of their hair loss,” says Tahnee Brown Condra, known online and to her customers as .”They’re insecure and depressed.”Condra has struggled with hair loss since she was a teen, as a symptom of PCOS.
A few years ago, she suffered a series of huge life traumas—pregnancy with twins, the death of a child, and then kidney cancer. “My hair just started literally falling out in clumps,” she says..
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