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Helen Renshaw

"My loss of identity was overwhelming" –how I learnt to live with alopecia

Portrait of Zelda Burborough, showing her hair loss.

"Expressing myself through my hair is something I used to love. Over the years, I would experiment with the latest cuts, and have had perms and highlights. I even went through a pink dye phase," begins Zelda Burborough. "But I had no idea how fundamental my hair was to my sense of self until it all fell out."

Zelda, 53, lives in Beckenham with her husband, Mark and three teenage children. She has lived with alopecia since 2018. She is now a media spokesperson for Changing Faces and a model with Zebedee Talent, an inclusive talent agency founded by two sisters-in-law. Here she shares her story of developing and living with alopecia.

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