Everything Jada Pinkett-Smith Has Said About Her Battle With Alopecia

The actress first revealed her diagnosis—an autoimmune condition that can cause someone to lose their hair, eyebrows and eyelashes—in a May 2018 episode of her Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk.
 
Calling the experience “terrifying when it first started,” Pinkett-Smith detailed, “I was in the shower one day and had just handfuls of hair in my hands and I was just like, ‘Oh my god, am I going bald?’ It was one of those times in my life where I was literally shaking in fear…That’s why I cut my hair, and why I continue to cut it.”

Though Pinkett-Smith said she thought her hair was a “big part” of her, having alopecia caused her to take a step back and see the bigger picture.