We must pray for Ricki Lake.

The notorious 2022 Oscars incident, in which actor Will Smith hit comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and her shaved head, is difficult to forget. Pinkett Smith has been shaving her head since 2021 as a result of alopecia.

It’s a delicate subject, particularly for public figures whose lives are in the spotlight.

Ricki Lake, a talk show host and actor, disclosed that she had been contemplating suicide for more than 30 years because she was self-conscious about her receding hair.

The now-54-year-old Lake was open about her hair loss and the variety of feelings she went through as she came to terms with the issue.

Actress Lake, who is also a musician, admitted she suffers androgenetic alopecia. This genetic disorder causes significant thinning and male-pattern baldness in both men and women after years of battle.

The now 54-year-old Lake posted an emotional Instagram with a picture of her shorn head and the words, “It has been crippling, embarrassing, painful, scary, depressed, lonely, all the things.” As a result of that, I’ve even occasionally had suicide thoughts. Nobody in my life truly appreciated the magnitude of the trauma and agonizing anguish I was experiencing. She asserts that she is not alone in this and that her goal is to help others while simultaneously releasing herself from the isolation she has been feeling.

After making her acting debut in the 1988 movie Hairspray as Tracy Turnblad, according to Lake, she went from “Hairspray to Hairless.” Her fragile, virgin hair was subjected to four different treatments over the course of two weeks in order to achieve the 1960s bouffant appearance for her character, which stressed her follicles.

She has been balding ever then, which is known medically as telogen effluvium, and it has become worse due to extreme weight changes, sadness, hormones, and the hair extensions she started wearing to cover up her “shame.”

Lake tried many methods to regrow her hair while concealing her androgenetic alopecia, including Rogaine, topical treatments, steroid injections, PRP therapy (plasma injections into the scalp), and the prescription drug Propecia.

It was useless.

From 1993 through 2004, Ricki Lake presided over her daytime tabloid talk show while under siege from the same inflated beauty standards that prevail today. Both in the studio and at home, she was observed by millions of admirers.

The two-time mother is well-known in Hollywood and has been in movies like Cry-Baby (1990) with Johnny Depp and Shirley MacLaine as well as Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) with Shirley MacLaine and Brendan Fraser. She has also appeared on television, most notably in King of Queens as Doug’s sister.

She has recently made appearances on The X Factor: Celebrity and Masked Singer in addition to being a documentary filmmaker, so she has never been out of the spotlight.

Despite winning a Daytime Emmy, Lake’s 2012 revival of her previous talk show with Ricki was only picked up for one season.

The 2017 suicide of Lake’s ex-husband, jewelry designer Christian Evans, deeply upset her. They had a solid relationship and were married from 2012 until 2015. She says her loss was significant. I genuinely suffered depression, she said to People. When I couldn’t get out of bed at various moments, it worried me. I’m usually an optimistic person, but not feeling that way immobilized me.

It was not unexpected that her hair was coming out given the level of stress she was experiencing in her personal and professional lives.

I was frightened of coming out, Lake said in a 2022 People interview. because, as far as I know, no female has ever discussed female baldness in public.

“I was at the lowest of lows. I chose to assume leadership. Lake asserted that she revealed her secret to her ex-boyfriend and told him about her intention to shave her head. He complimented her and reassured her that she looked lovely.

The adoration of her close friends and the help of her partner allowed Lake to ring in the new year on February 2, 2022 looking brand-new.

In an Instagram post where she also revealed that she had shaved her head, she called her life a “quiet hell.”

She claimed that the message’s publication on the first day of the new year wasn’t planned. I only desired to end this suffering in quiet.

She didn’t anticipate that her hair would continue to grow, giving her a full head of magnificent, flowing gray hair this time. “I had no idea that my head would grow back after I shaved it. It resembles a miracle.

Lake posted the video that was taken when she initially shaved her head to mark the third anniversary of the day she returned her sovereignty. “In this video, you can witness me reach a place of calm, emancipation, and most importantly, self-love and self-acceptance,” the author says in the title. I can honestly say that, three years later, I still value and enjoy my naturally gray and frequently unruly hair.

Lake still looks lovely whether she gets a buzz cut or wears her now-naturally gray hair. We are so grateful that Ricki Lake boldly shared her experience since anyone going through a similar situation would undoubtedly find it beneficial.

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