A model who was left bald from alopecia says she used to be so mortified by her hair loss that she even wore a wig in the shower. She's now come to embrace her look, however, and is proud to be "bald and beautiful". Christie Valdiserri, now 29, first realised there was a small bald patch at the back of her head back in 2016, just three weeks after she graduated from university.
One year later, after the Penn State University grad had moved to New York to work as a dance teacher, her hair began falling out "very rapidly", and despite undergoing intense treatment, she was eventually left completely bald.
