Throughout her life, Mckenna Reitz was known for her long, thick brown hair. The 33-year-old mom had no idea how much she connected her identity with her hair until it started falling out after the birth of her second daughter. She went to many hospitals, but nothing could stop her hair falling. By December of 2015, she was completely bald and was told that she had alopecia(秃头症).
Mckenna was devastated. She spent months visiting experts and trying anything to regrow her hair. She wouldn’t leave the house without a hat or wig(假发). Mckenna says she couldn’t even look in the mirror after her hair fell out. She could barely get out of bed in the morning, but it was her young daughters who eventually pulled her out of her fear.
Understanding that alopecia is genetic and could someday affect them too, she grew determined to show her daughters that hair loss is not the end of the world. “I kept thinking, what if this happens to my daughters?” she explained. “I needed them to understand that if it does happen to them, they could get through it, just like they witnessed their mom do.”
From that point on, she stopped trying to make her hair grow back and started to accept herself as she is now. She stopped wearing hats and wigs in public. In time, she learned to love herself again, and she felt so confident now.
“My mom always said to me, ‘God gives the strongest people the toughest challenges.’ I’m so honored and blessed. It’s made me understand that every person has their own story. Mine just happens to be visible.”
Mckenna is a beautiful person, inside and out. Her important work is helping to remove the shame about hair loss while reminding us that we are so much more than our physical body!
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