‘Joking about someone’s alopecia is the same as joking about someone’s disability, race or sexuality’

I have had alopecia since I was eight years old.

Being a female actor with the condition alopecia universalis (hair loss of the entire body), I know what it is like to be judged. Particularly in an industry where alopecia has historically been seen as a negative thing. This is thankfully now changing, but incidents like this year’s Oscars show we’ve still got a long way to go.