Lots of stars, particularly women, have come forward with stories of thinning hair to break the taboos surrounding balding and to give the public the real truth about Hollywood's perfect-seeming tresses. Here are celebs who experienced severe hair loss.

Jada Pinkett Smith, a successful actress and the wife of Will Smith, found a significant positive in her battle with hair loss. In her case, she struggles with alopecia, an autoimmune disease that causes hair on the face, skin, and body to fall out, with the National Alopecia Areata Foundation reporting,

"[I]t affects as many as 6.8 million people in the U.S...People of all ages, both sexes and all ethnic groups can develop alopecia areata."

Pinkett Smith, who is often seen wearing a headscarf or rocking a cropped haircut or braids, revealed that those style choices are a result of her hair loss struggles. She opened up about the situation in a 2018 episode of her Facebook Watch show Red Table Talk, saying,

"It was terrifying when it first started. I was in the shower one day and then just handfuls of hair, just in my hands, and I was just like, 'Oh my God, am I going bald?'"

Pinkett Smith also explained how she maintains a sense of perspective about her thinning hair and said,

"I watch the higher power take things every day...and if the higher power wants to take your hair? That's it? God, you want my hair?...When I looked at it from that perspective it really did settle me."

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