Watch the woman who refuses to wear a wig
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Kylie Clowney, from Pottstown, Pennsylvania, has been suffering from alopecia areata since she was two.
But, Kylie doesn’t wear a wig as she says her baldness has increased her confidence.
The 23-year-old says she was never attached to her hair and was always confident about her look.
She told Barcroft TV: “I felt more insecure with a wig than without it. I felt sillier wearing a wig, I felt more self-conscious and I had to worry: ‘Is it styled, is it falling off, does it look right?’”
Kylie says sometimes she wishes she had long blond hair but she also loves the way she is because it has increased her confidence and has made her who she is today.
Kylie is a florist and volunteers for the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.
She said: “Living with alopecia isn’t necessarily hard but it is a little bit exhausting. Everybody has a comment or a question or wants to know why you don’t have hair, which is fine and I love to educate people, that is what I pride myself in doing.”
Kylie has a supportive family and friends who never left her alone and made her feel positive about her condition.
Her friends and family say that Kylie is like a ray of sunshine and they call her ‘Kylie Smiley’.
Kylie wishes to inspire people with alopecia. She wants to say to them that it’s OK to be different.
She says: “I think I have definitely pushed beauty standards and you know, it is definitely hard being a little bit different but I am confident in myself and confident in what I am doing.”
“I would never trade alopecia for anything. It is one of my many things about me. It has made me who I am and it has opened the door to so many things, so actually, to me, it is a strength, not a weakness.”
She concluded: “Everyone matters, we all should have a voice and we all are beautiful in our own way.”