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Famous documentarian Louis Theroux is now able to grow “straggly” and “sparse” facial hair, more than seven months after revealing he believed he had alopecia.
The award-winning journalist – known for documentaries such as 2007’s The Most Hated Family in America and My Scientology Movie in 2016 – shared a selfie to his 800,000 Instagram followers on Wednesday, which he captioned: “Alopecia update (try to remain calm!)”.
“New bald patches are appearing in my “top hair” (the hair on top of my head) BUT I can now grow a weird straggly and rather sparse white beard. So that’s something.
”And there are some tiny patches of regrowth on my eyebrow. [for what it’s worth] I’ve been taking vitamin D, iron, and something called biotin. Is it helping? Who knows?”
The 53-year-old journalist, known for investigating fascinating and bizzare subject matters, spoke about his patchy beard growth in January this year, suggesting at the time he believed it was due to alopecia – a form of autoimmune hair loss where round bald patches appear suddenly, most often affecting the scalp.
In a post at the time, he wrote that his beard was growing as a “triangle of stubble around my mouth and some more at the sides”.
In that same update he said the changes had happened over the course of 2022 and, he did not, “want people to think I’m doing something creative with my facial hair and doing it badly”.
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Louis Theroux has shared his “patchy” and “sparse” beard growth in his latest alopecia update.
In June this year the documentarian provided a further update on nature’s “cruel trick”, which meant he, “can now only grow a weird little Hitler moustache”.
“I have given up on my beard ever growing back to its luxuriant former glory but is too much to ask for it to ALL fall out instead of having a tiny remnant in a potentially offensive configuration?”
A month later, Theroux updated his followers again, revealing the alopecia had, “migrated up to my eyebrow”, and shared a selfie that showed the patchy spots.
”I want people to acclimatise to the new partially depilated me and not freak everyone out by suddenly appearing in public like a half-plucked elephant bird with no forewarning,” he wrote of his updates.
The hairloss condition made headlines in 2022, at the Oscars.
Actor Will Smith stormed on stage and hit comedian Chris Rock over a joke Rock made about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who has been public about her life with alopecia.
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