Setback for Gail Porter as she reveals that her hair is falling out again just months after it grew back

By GEORGINA LITTLEJOHN

Setback: TV presenter Gail Porter Tweeted a picture of herself showing a bald patch at the back of her head


She bravely took her battle with alopecia on the chin and was delighted when her hair started to grow back earlier this year.

But brave Gail Porter has been dealt a new blow after revealing that her hair has started falling out again.

The TV presenter, 39, lost her long blonde locks when she was struck with the condition in 2005.

Earlier this year, she looked as though she had beaten the condition for good when she arrived at a film premiere with her daughter Honey, seven, in January showing her hair starting to grow back.

By March, she had regained 75% of her lost locks, but the regrowth was still rather patchy.

Then, in August, she appeared on the GMTV sporting a short blonde hair do and it looked as though she had finally beaten the condition.


New blow: Presenter Gail Porter showed off her new blond hairstyle on TV in August - but she has revealed that her hair is falling out again


On its way back: Gail showed off some regrowth of her hair for the first time at a premiere in January this year


She also credited her new boyfriend Jonny Davis, who is 14 years her junior, with making her happy and helping it grow back.

But this week she went online to reveal that her hair has started to fall out again.
She wrote: ' Bit of hair falling out again', but she was flooded with messages of support with one saying, 'You're beautiful with or without hair.'


How it was: She was struck by the condition in 2005, pictured here in that year before and after the hair loss


It's thought the illness was brought on by the stress of her marriage to Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave breaking down, coupled with post-natal depression, problems with drugs and an attempted suicide.

All her hair fell out but she refused to wear a wig even though she suffered from the condition for five years and her experience was the subject of a BBC One Life series documentary in 2006 called Gail Porter Laid Bare.

She also became an ambassador for the Little Princess Trust, a charity which provides wigs to children with hair loss.



The trigger: Gail's divorce from husband Dan Hipgrave, seen her with her and their daughter Honey in 2003, is believed to have brought on her alopecia


source: dailymail