- When you have your hand on your head it feels weird?
- This? - Yeah.
- Do you want to feel it?
- It is soft.
(laughing)
- Hi.
(laughing)
- What's your name?
- My name is Lexi.
- Lexi, I'm Lennox.
- Hi.
- It's nice to meet you.
What's your name? - Oscar.
- Oscar, I'm Lennox, nice to meet you.
Do you know why we're here?
- No idea.
- You want to guess?
- Yeah.
- What's your guess?
Do you notice anything about me?
You can say it.
- Yeah.
- What do you notice?
- That...
- Don't worry, it's not gonna be weird.
- Okay, that you don't have hair.
- Yeah, yeah I don't have any hair.
Why do you think that I'm bald?
- I don't know. - Me either.
- Could you take a guess?
- You have cancer?
- No, but you're on the right track.
I do have a health related reason for why I'm bald,
but it's not cancer.
Do you know why?
- Oh there's this thing when you lose a lot of hair.
First there's blotches, it gets more.
- Yeah you already know a lot about it.
Do you remember the name?
Alo-- - Pecia.
- Pecia, yeah.
It's called alopecia.
- Alopecia.
- Alopecia. - Alopecia, yeah.
- Peach. (laughing)
- Alopecia.
- What's alolecia?
- Alopecia, with a P in the end.
- What's alopecia?
- So alopecia is a disease where
my body thinks that my hair is bad.
So my body fights my hair, basically.
- Fights it?
- Yeah. - Like this?
- Yup, exactly like that.
My body thinks that my hair is like an intruder
so my immune system, the thing, you know
when you get sick and your body, you get like a fever?
- Oh yeah. - Yup.
- So that thing fights my hair follicles.
- Oh.
- Yeah so when I was 15, all my hair fell out.
I used to have hair just like you,
but it was a little bit longer than yours.
- Maybe a little bit.
- Yeah just a little bit, it would hang down
to like right there, yeah.
So you've heard of it before?
- Yes, when my mom also had alopecia
but she grew it back.
- Really?
- Yeah, right, like right here.
- Will your hair ever grow back?
- I don't think so.
Some people with alopecia, their hair grows back.
But usually if it does it falls out again.
- Do you have hair on your arms and legs?
- A little bit, I get like patches
of hair on my legs, it's kind of weird.
- And I also see your eyebrows.
You also lost there.
- Yeah I don't have any eyebrows either.
- And also-- - I have eyelashes.
- Oh.
- I did lose my eyelashes.
- [Boy] A little bit?
- I lost them all the way.
And then they grew all the way back.
- Okay that's good.
- Wait, was it like just one day you woke up
and there was a bunch of hair on your pillow?
- Kind of, yeah.
One day I woke up and there was like
a circle on my head of baldness
that was like right here.
- Did you eat something for breakfast?
- Did I eat something for breakfast?
Yeah I did.
- Did you eat something that morning that made you--
- Oh (laughing), the morning that made my hair fall out?
I don't think so.
It's genetic so it's not from food,
it's not from other people, like you can't get it.
Like if we touch like our fingers like this.
You can't get it from me, don't worry.
- Wait what if it goes the other way around,
and hair comes?
- Like if I go like this and then you grow more hair?
- Yes.
- That would be pretty cool.
That would be like a super power maybe.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Do you have to go to the doctor and take medicine?
- Yeah, I go to the doctor sometimes,
but I don't really take medicine.
Because there's nothing that you can do
to make alopecia go away.
- Did it hurt when it fell out?
- No it didn't hurt but I had to do this treatment
to try to make it grow back where they put
shots into my head, they gave me injections.
And that hurt really bad
and I would hold my mom's hand really really really tight
and the doctor would count down.
- It just hurts my arm.
- Yeah.
Do you think that you can imagine losing your hair?
- No.
- Do you think that you would still feel girly?
- I feel girly no matter what.
- Oh. (laughing)
How would you feel if one day you were in the shower
and your hair just started falling out.
- I would maybe cover my hair.
- So you wouldn't want people to see?
You would be embarrassed?
- Yes, were you embarrassed at first?
- Yeah, I remember the day that I shaved my head
we went out for pizza and I was sitting
in the pizza parlor with my hat on
just like, so scared because I didn't want people to know.
- When you're out in public like what do people do?
- People stare at me, people point at me,
people do a double take, you know?
Like they look at me, and then they look away,
and the look back and they're like,
yeah yeah exactly.
- Aside from losing your hair,
is there anything else that happens with alopecia?
- Sometimes I get really bad fatigue.
- So you just fall asleep?
- Yeah, yeah, it's really hard to do certain things.
- What's your job?
- I'm a model.
Yeah.
Are you surprised?
- A little bit.
- Yeah, that's okay.
Why are you surprised?
- I don't know, they have hair and they're always
like doing something with it while they're modeling.
- Do you get rich?
- No.
- I thought models make richness.
- Some models are rich, but not all of them.
- Do you ever wish you had all your hair back?
- Sometimes I do, sometimes I feel really beautiful
and sometimes I feel really ugly,
and that's just part of being alive I think.
But the goal is to be kind to myself
and like the way I look.
So I think most of the time, no.
I wouldn't wish for it back.
- Yeah! - Yeah.
Some people don't care if you have problems.
- You're right, some people don't care.
I'm Lennox, thanks so much for watch Kids Meet.
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