- Do you use shampoo?
- No (laughs).
I just use body wash.
(calm clarinet music)
Hi.
- Hi.
(both laugh)
- What's your name?
- My name's Lexi.
- Lexi, I'm Lennox.
- Hi.
- It's nice to meet you.
I like your cat ears.
- Thank you.
I like your earrings.
- Thank you.
Do you know why we're here today?
(both laugh)
- No not really.
- No?
Do you notice anything about me?
(Lexi groans awkwardly)
You can say yes.
- That you don't have hair.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I don't have any hair.
Have you ever seen a bald person before?
- On movies.
- On movies?
Do you know why any of them were bald?
- One of them has cancer.
Do you have cancer?
- No I don't have cancer.
I do have a health related reason for why I'm bald,
but it's not cancer.
It's called alopecia.
- Alopecia?
- Alopecia
- Yeah.
My immune system thinks that my hair is an intruder,
it thinks that it's bad, so it fights my hair follicles.
So my hair fell out when I was 15,
and now it doesn't really grow.
- So your body thinks it's like bad?
- Yeah, basically.
It's kind of complicated.
(both laugh)
Yeah.
- What was it like when, like,
when you were going to school losing your hair?
- It was really scary.
My hair looked a lot like your hair.
I shaved all of my hair off after I had been losing my hair.
I didn't like watching it happen anymore,
and it was too hard.
So the day that I shaved my head,
I went to school the next day
and I stood in front of my classes
and I told everybody about alopecia
so that they wouldn't feel scared of me
and so that I wouldn't feel scared of them.
And everyone was really kind to me,
which is pretty rare and really special
because sometimes people can be mean in school, you know?
- Will your hair come back?
- I don't think so, but it's possible.
Some people go into what they call a natural remission
which means that your body, somehow,
decides that it's not going to happen anymore
and that you can grow hair again.
But I probably won't grow hair in my life.
- Do you ever wish you had all your hair back?
- Sometimes I do.
Sometimes I wake up from a dream
and I think that I have my hair back
but that doesn't happen very much.
Usually I just, I'm happy that I'm myself
because I like being myself.
Do you think that you could imagine losing your hair?
- No.
I'd be really sad.
- Do you think that you would still feel girly?
- I feel girly no matter what.
- Oh.
(both laugh)
- What's your job?
- I'm a model.
Yeah.
(laughing)
Are you surprised?
- A little bit.
- Yeah?
That's okay.
What do you picture when think of a model?
- They have hair and they're always like
doing something with it.
- Yeah, you're right.
- Do you like modeling?
- Yeah.
Sometimes it's kind of scary and I feel kind of nervous
and sometimes I feel kind of alone
because a lot of models are tall or they have hair
and they do stuff with it, like you said
but I also really like it
because it's different than any job I've ever done.
It's more fun and creative.
Would you ever wanna be a model?
(laughing)
Is that a yes?
- Yes.
- It was really nice to meet you.
Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Bye.
- [Producer] Good job Lexi.
- I'm Lennox.
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