Sue Holderness, who plays Marlene in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses has told of how she has suffered varying degrees of hair loss over the last 20 years.
Well known for her distinctive hair in the hit sitcom and its spin-off, The Green Green Grass, Holderness in fact relied upon wigs and make-up as her hair was at times coming out in handfuls.
Holderness tells of how she relied on make-up artists and how she would sometimes use eye-liner to colour her scalp to hide the thinness of her hair after she started suffering hair loss in her thirties.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Holderness said:
“I have lost hair ever since I had my children in my thirties. Initially, I thought it was maybe part of being an exhausted new mum and didn’t do anything about it. But as I got older, it got worse and, one day, after I turned 40, I woke up and saw a carpet of hair left on my pillow.”
Holderness goes on to describe how frightening this experience was and how she was reluctant to look in the mirror in case she was bald. When she did look, she saw there was a chunk of hair missing and that the rest was unusually thin.
She then took the right decision by going to see her GP. If you are suffering hair loss, this is always the first step that you should take.