Jessica-Mae Harnett competes in beauty pageants despite having suffered from alopecia three times. , but she isn’t letting it hold her back.
The Milton Keynes-based accounts manager has overcome severe ‘playground bullies’ to become a competitor in British beauty pageants. ‘The first time I suffered with hair loss, the doctors put it down to stress but I was only three years old so there was nothing to be stressed about,’ the now 21-year-old said.
Her condition, known as alopecia totalis, involves the complete loss of scalp hair. It only worsened as Jessica grew older. At age 12, she lost 80% of her hair in just a fortnight.‘I remember waking up and there was hair all over my pillow … And it continued to fall out when I brushed it, I was sobbing watching my hair fall to the floor.’
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