In an open message on Tuesday, Louis Theroux gave his social media fans an update on the condition of his alopecia.
The documentary filmmaker, 53, revealed that his disease had progressed and was now encroaching on his brows.
He took a close-up photo and highlighted one of his brows that looked to be thinning more than its counterpart.
The TV actor published a lengthy message detailing his sentiments throughout the hair loss, revealing he was taking vitamins to ‘maintain [his] brows’.
Louis began typing: ‘Oh jeez it looks like the alopecia has migrated up to my eyebrow [sic].’
He continued in a chatty tone, saying: ‘I realise you aren’t all awaiting every update on its progress but I want people to acclimatise to the new partially depilated me and not freak everyone out by suddenly appearing in public like a half-plucked elephant bird with no forewarning.
‘So this is where we’re at. I’d really like to keep my eyebrows, but it’s out of my hands at this point… tho I have started taking vitamin d and something called biotin [sic].’
Fans congratulated the director and applauded him for his sensitivity in the comments section.
One reassured him: ‘Eyebrows are overrated. What do they even do? If Madonna doesn’t need them, neither do you [sic].’
Another posted: ‘Happened to me mate. You’re still beautiful big L, don’t worry! X [sic].’
‘Just as long as you don’t lose your flair and charisma as well [sic],’ a separate social media user chimed in underneath the upload.
His most recent contribution comes after he first alerted his admirers to the condition that causes hair loss – as the immune system destroys hair follicles – with a similarly constructed image and description.
‘Nature has played a nasty joke on me,’ he wrote in a letter to fans. Because of my alopecia barbae (“of the beard”), I can only develop a strange tiny Hitler moustache.
‘This is what I look like after three days not shaving. I have given up on my beard ever growing back to its luxuriant former glory but is too much to ask for it to ALL fall out instead of having a tiny remnant in a potentially offensive configuration?
‘And now a bald patch has appeared on the back of my head making me wonder if my proper hair-hair might be next to go. In two years or less I may be bald! [sigh] [sic].’
Source My Celebrity Life.
