And I’m a black woman.
In a powerful video for the Root, Pressley recounted suddenly losing the hair on her head, beginning last fall.
She spoke about her decision to go public about the condition and revealed her bald head in the video.
Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley revealed Thursday that she is living with alopecia, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss on certain parts of the face and body.
In the fall, when she started noticing patches of baldness on her head, Pressley said, she tried every method she knew to try to stem the hair loss.
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