
The actress first revealed her diagnosis—an autoimmune condition that can cause someone to lose their hair, eyebrows and eyelashes—in a May 2018 episode of her Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk.
Calling the experience “terrifying when it first started,” Pinkett-Smith detailed, “I was in the shower one day and had just handfuls of hair in my hands and I was just like, ‘Oh my god, am I going bald?’ “It was one of those moments in my entire life that I literally trembled in fear…That is why I cut my hair and continue to do so.”
Pinkett Smith said that she considered her hair a major part of herself, however, alopecia made her look again at her life.