Poor Gail Porter, look what's happened to her now.

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Oooh! sobernow. Along the same lines, I have to start a thread about the annoying one on CBBC. Will you join me?

I agree, sobernow. She drives me round the twist w/her constant moaning and woe-is-me routine. Yawn. Lots of single mothers do more on a WHOLE hella lot less. She's boring.

Every time you see the gal, she's bleating about something - her weight, how she's perceived in the press, how busy she is. Wwaaaa.

I had severe PND, too. I also had to eat. It was just too f*&^ing bad and I had to go to work like that.

Stress? We have three jobs between us, are in massive debt thanks to tax credits, live paycheque to paycheque and permanently in the hole, and I'm 6 months pregnant.

Cry me a river, Gail!

dd has alopecia areata, and it falls out in patches. There are variants, though; alopecia totalis is all the hair on the head, alopecia universalis is all the hair on the body.

In dd's case at least, it is an autoimmune condition, linked to asthma/ hayfever running in the family, and nothing to do with stress.

Im not sure about it all really. Its a terrible thing to happen to any woman, but she's not short of a few bob, why not disguise it with extensions or a wig. Its very very brave thing to do and I definitley couldnt do it, but cant help thinking it might be attention seeking. (btw what is it she is actually famous for?)

My uncle lost his hair due to some unspecified event in his twenties and still in his 60's has no (visible) hair. It's less noticeable now, because older men are quite often bald, but I think it was very difficult for him when he was younger, and he has never worked. I'm not sure from family accounts if he lost his hair and then had a bit of a breakdown, or if the hair went as part of the breakdown. Me and my cousin found a picture of him in his early twenties once, and were amazed to see an attractive man with a full head of hair - we didn't recognise him at all.

I feel sorry for her. Depression is an illness, and given that her mother had it for years, it may be inherited. She can't help it. I think it's a bit mean to say she is moaning when she is so depressed that she has tried to kill herself. There but for the grace of god...

my hair started to fall out 9 months after having my 1st baby when i became pregnant with my second, by the time i was 6 months pregnant I was completely bald and had been diagnosed with alopecia totalis and told by dermatologist that my hair would never grow back. Got a wig, several headscarves and a good eyebrow pencil and thought f*k it. baby 2 is now 3 months old and my hair is and inch long, eyebrows and body hair have also returned thankfully..I've had no explanation from consultant other than it's an autoimmune condition and pregnancy does some wierd stuff to your body!! Has this happened to anyone else?

gengis, the one I mentioned has 7 children; I have only known her since between her 4th & 5th (iyswim) and she has been completely hairless all that time so I don't know when she started (and I don't know her well enough to ask).

(She was quite young then - under 30 I think when her 4th was born - over 40 now though.)

Good job she has a pixie face that suits baldness. I wonder if she'd be quite so open if she had a funny shaped head and flobbedy cheeks (like me).

I have a lot of sympathy for her. PND is a terrible thing (been there, done that) and to have to live it all (including a suicide attempt) in the public eye must be very hard. And I think she's very brave to be so open about her hair loss. She sounds like a person with 'issues' - ie. the anorexia - and the attention seeking, needing public approbation is part of that. I hope she finds some peace and happiness.

And she has bleached her remaining hair blonde, she is mousy really. Why tell the press she is spending the afternoon in the pub with her little daughter???. Sounds like she needs some good friends to help her out and lie low. Those sunglasses were asking for attention. I feel for her but she needs to sort it out in private.

She seems very, very ill.

didn't mean to sound callous, just don't understand it, maybe she is crying out for help, I read she has stopped speaking to her mum, poor love, it is just easier to judge when you read about it in papers.

thank god

i agree with you sobernow and expat

can't some anti-ds cause hair loss?

or hormonal imbalances?

Is this a wind up? She looked perfectly normal to me when I saw her a month ago. She was chatting to some bloke in the queue in M&S, I was quite close to her. She didn't see me as her nose was stuck up in the air! I don't dislike her, but she came across as a bit "aware" of herself. We get Alan Bennett in our M&S regular, and he isn't stuck up

aloha, I'm not sure whether depression is genetic - I don't think so....willing to be corrected though.