6 Stars Who Opened Up About Dealing With Trichotillomania

Discover out what these celebrities stated about trichotillomania…

Olivia Munn just lately opened up about her battle with trichotillomania, which she says was triggered when she was courting Chris Pine again in 2009. Wanting again, Olivia says it was the primary time she was ever photographed by the paparazzi and studying the feedback on the images was a harmful expertise that affected her psychological well being.

“There’s a sensation. It’s in all probability not even actual, however I’ll really feel like, ‘Oh, this eyelash feels prefer it’s gonna come out,’ though it’s not,” Olivia shared on the Armchair Knowledgeable with Dax Shepard podcast. “After which while you pull it, there was a fast second of ache. After which there’s a satisfaction after which fast remorse.”

Amy Schumer started coping with trichotillomania when she was a child throughout a time that she felt that her life was in disarray. Again then, she plucked out a lot of her hair that she wanted a wig. She opened up concerning the dysfunction in her fictional present Life & Beth, utilizing her character to share about her real-life wrestle.

“I feel all people has an enormous secret and that’s mine. And I’m proud that my large secret solely hurts me but it surely’s been what I’ve carried a lot disgrace about for therefore lengthy,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter. “I actually don’t need to have an enormous secret anymore. I believed placing it in there could be good for me to alleviate a few of my disgrace and possibly, hopefully, assist others alleviate a few of theirs, too.”

Victoria’s Secret mannequin Sara Sampaio has shared her wrestle with trichotillomania. Wanting again, she says she’s handled the situation since she was a teen however her anxiousness and panic assaults worsened after the dying of her grandfather.

“I pull at my eyebrows and really feel like my muscle tissue are all the time so tense,” Sara stated on an episode of Scan My Mind. “My tricho began after I was 15. However even earlier than that, I already had lots of physique ticks. Like I’d [blink rapidly] with my eyes continuously. My mother and father even thought I had an issue with my eyes. However that went away. I have a tendency to select lots of my lips as nicely. And now I really feel the necessity to do sure physique actions. I don’t know if it’s as a result of I simply have a lot stress in every single place that I really feel prefer it simply releases it.”

Colin Farrell hasn’t opened up a couple of formal analysis with trichotillomania however again in 2004, he admitted in an interview with GQ that he was a “a hair puller-outer.”

He didn’t share any additional details about his habits but it surely could possibly be related to trichotillomania.

Halsey has admitted to pulling out her hair and eyelashes as a nervous behavior. She opened up concerning the situation when a fan requested her about her brief nails that appeared to have been bitten. The singer responded by saying it was an absentminded behavior she had picked up. She later adopted as much as say that it could possibly be “very critical for some folks.”

“Simply an anxious individual. I pull out my eyelashes + hair too. Simply do it absentmindedly I assume,” she shared on social media.

Pete Davidson struggled with trichotillomania after the passing of his father when he was just a little boy. Wanting again, Pete admits he misplaced virtually all of his hair when he was in fourth grade as a result of he couldn’t cease his urges to select at his hair.

“I used to tear my hair out so after I was in fourth grade, I used to be bald. I ripped all my hair out. It was only a tick after [my dad died], I simply couldn’t cease twirling and ripping my hair out,” Pete shared on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast.