Model embraces her alopecia

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00:00You could look at me now, I look like I've got hair.

00:02I haven't got hair.

00:03This is me.

00:04This is my image.

00:05I'm bold.

00:06I'm unique.

00:07This is who I am now, and you should always

00:09accept who you are.

00:12My name's Aurelina Jackson.

00:14I'm 29 years old, and I did Series 6 of X on the Beach

00:18in 2017.

00:19Now, I'm totally hairless and embracing the fact

00:22that I'm a bold 29-year-old girl on social media.

00:26I basically noticed a bald patch in front of my hair.

00:29It was really strange, because I've never had any hair loss.

00:31So obviously, for me, it was quite a panic.

00:34And then a week after that, my hair just literally just fell.

00:38I'd wake up, and there'd be hair on the pillow.

00:40I'd have a shower, and it'd be falling down my legs.

00:42I lost all of my hair in literally six weeks.

00:45Hair on my head, face, body.

00:47This came on for absolutely no reason.

00:50I still, to this day, don't know why it's happened.

00:52Unfortunately, with it being a cosmetic thing,

00:55it's more overlooked by the doctors, sadly.

00:57My whole identity was being stripped from me.

01:00It sounds crazy, but you don't actually realize

01:03how much hair can impact your facial features.

01:06My eyelashes, when they went, that was horrific.

01:08I went into a very bad state of depression.

01:11It massively affected how I felt around my boyfriend.

01:14He was very reassured and didn't leave me.

01:16But obviously, it's a very feminine quality to have as a woman.

01:21The hair fall was worse than the actual balding

01:24at the end of my journey.

01:26So in a way, when I decided to embrace the shave,

01:29it was actually quite a weight lifted off my shoulders

01:32because I knew it was inevitable.

01:34I knew it was something I had to accept.

01:36And at the same time, it was just so nice to know

01:39that I didn't have any more hair to fall out.

01:42It was like a coping mechanism for me

01:44to almost own what was going on,

01:46accept what was going on, and not have it as a secret,

01:50which would have ultimately made it a bigger deal

01:53than what it is.

01:54And then when I actually posted my first image bald,

01:57it was crazy.

01:58Like, I got so many messages from people reaching out

02:00with alopecia themselves or with chemotherapy and cancer,

02:04you know, suffering hair loss too.

02:06But it was really empowering.

02:09I've gone from being an influencer with fashion

02:12to now influencing being yourself

02:14and being confident and comfortable in your own skin.

02:16For me, waking up and going,

02:18oh God, you know, I need to shave my legs.

02:20Oh, no, I don't.

02:21Or going, oh, I'm going to go on the cross-trainer today.

02:24No, I won't need to wash my hair.

02:26You know, it's fantastic.

02:27I can just shove a wig on, shove a hat on.

02:29I don't even need to stick the wig down.

02:30Like, this isn't even stuck down.

02:32I can wear different wigs all the time.

02:34I can have a different identity all the time.

02:36I can be anyone I want.

02:37So I've actually lost one identity but gained a thousand.

02:41You could look at me now.

02:42I don't even look like...

02:43I look like I've got hair.

02:44I've got my eyebrows, I've got hair.

02:45The truth is, you know, I haven't got hair.

02:48This is me.

02:49This is my image.

02:50I'm bald.

02:51I'm unique.

02:52And, you know, I do own my look.

02:54Like, this is who I am now.

02:56And you should always accept who you are.

02:58Love yourself.

02:59And don't let anyone else ever put you down.

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