“I’m proud that my big secret only hurts me, but it’s been what I’ve carried so much shame about for so long,” she said of having trichotillomania.
, has had the hair-pulling disorder since she was a child and it still affects her adult life. “It’s not that I used to have this problem and now I don’t,” she continued. “It’s still something that I struggle with.”She noted that her trichotillomania emerged when her dad declared bankruptcy on his successful furniture company, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and her parents then divorced.
Schumer said that trauma led to her plucking out too much of her blond mane and she had to wear a bad wig to school — something documented“I really don’t want to have a big secret anymore,” the “I Feel Pretty” actress stated. “And I thought putting it in there would be good for me to alleviate some of my shame and maybe, hopefully, help others alleviate some of theirs too.”“Every time he touches his head, I’m having a heart attack,” Schumer admitted.
in 2018, writing that it causes her to pull her eyebrows and noting, “this is my experience! I’m not ashame[d] of it.”
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