The 'X-Men' actor talks about suffering from hair loss since his teenage years and how it made him feel like 'a failure' and affected his dating life as a young man.
- Oct 17, 2023
AceShowbiz - Sir Patrick Stewart claims going bald destroyed his early love life. The "Star Trek" star, 83, had become totally bald by his late teens and says girls that age had no interest in dating a boy with a "few bristles" on his head.
"It wasn't easy in my late teens to find that I was losing my hair. Losing my hair felt like a failure. And also, dating... who wants to go out with an 18-year-old who's just got a few bristles?" he told the "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" podcast.
But Sir Patrick has said he recently found out his third wife Sunny Ozell, who is nearly 40 years his junior, was always attracted to bald men even in her teens. He said, "As luck would have it, my wife and I had this conversation only a couple of days ago."
"She admitted to me that she had always been attracted to bald men, from her teenage years. I said, 'Oh, at last! I now understand why you had the nerve to let me take you out.' "
He tells in his memoir "Make It So: how he spent years trying to find a solution to regrow his hair when he started to lose it from the age of 17, before he went totally bald a year later.
The actor also told the Daily Mirror, "I was rapidly losing my hair, and I wanted to be able to pay for treatment at a hair clinic in Bristol. The more hair I lost, the more attention I paid to the clinic. Finally, one day, I screwed up the courage to walk in and have a chat with the people inside."
At 17, Sir Patrick star got a job bricklaying so he could pay for a hair regrowth treatment he had seen advertised while walking to school.
But he admitted about how they failed to work, "I must have had three or four sessions, which involved the placing of electrode patches on my scalp, some massaging by hand, and the application of various creams. But it was hopeless. By the age of 19, I was as bald on top as I am now."
