In a Facebook post, per “Good Morning America,” Ricki Lake explained that her time on Broadway in the 1980s largely contributed to her hair struggles. “I’ve been to many doctors, gotten steroid shots in my head, taking all the supplements and then some,” Lake wrote on Facebook. “My hair would recover and then shed again. It was maddening.”
January 2021 was when the actor opened up about her hair loss publicly for the first time. In her “GMA” interview that month, Lake spoke about shaving her head, stating, “It was such a right of passage last year taking the leap of faith to shave my head, and my hair, thankfully, has grown back. And I learned so much through the process of really letting go of something that had been really bothering me for decades.” She added that she had previously kept her hair loss private and finally felt as if she was “coming clean” when she made the decision to shave her head. Since then, she has been open in sharing with fans how liberating and humbling the experience has been.
“I’ve come to embrace not only my hair that has grown back, but also the color,” the 53-year-old said on “GMA.” “This is my natural color and as a society as women, we’re not supposed to embrace aging.”
