“I truly felt natural beauty and my femininity were at stake.”
Becky Harris was diagnosed with alopecia, an autoimmune skin disease, when she was 17 years old.
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And it was at this early age that she began losing her hair.
Becky first realized the severity of the situation when a chunk of her hair came out in her then-boyfriend's hands.
And for any girl going through high school, they know that finding security in yourself is hard enough, nevermind battling an autoimmune disease on top of that.