Paloma Faith has spoken out about the heartbreaking cause of her alopecia.
As a multi-award-winning popstar with a number of chart-toppers under her belt, you'd expect the 42-year-old to be practically brimming with confidence. In reality, she's had plenty of self-doubt along the way, as well as issues with stress that have taken a toll on her health.
This week, the Only Love Can Hurt Like This singer has opened up about some of her anxieties during an episode of the podcast, Great Company with Jamie Laing, touching upon her fears of being dropped by her record label, and insecurities about not being good enough.
During the chat, Paloma, who announced her split from French artist Leyman Lahcine last August, also touched upon her battle with alopecia, while detailing why exactly music has proven to be very 'cathartic' for her condition...
Writing music has proven to be a very therapeutic process for Paloma (Dave Benett/Getty Images for Perfect X Della Vite)
The singer opened up about some of her childhood traumas (Getty Images for Don Julio)Speaking about the process of writing an album, Paloma told host Jamie Laing: "It's therapeutic. It's cathartic. But I also do a lot of actual therapy as well. And I find that important, I can notice when I don't go for a while that I need it. But I don't think anger is a negative emotion either. Because I was raised to believe anger was a negative emotion.
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"And my mum, when I was growing up was always like if I hit something or threw something, she'd say, I can't believe you. You're just like your father. Because that was like the biggest insult. And because my dad was a very angry man, because he's a very angry man. It didn't get him anywhere."
She continued: "But I've also got something like I get stressed related alopecia. And I think all of that it's like, and it's always emotional. If I'm stressed at work, if it's emotional, my hair starts falling out. And it's something to do with like the body kind of like starts eating itself, if you don't release those feelings. So it's really important that you do."
According to Lloyd's Pharmacy, the type of hair loss most commonly caused by stress is telogen effluvium. The 'telogen' phase refers to hairs that are resting - as opposed to the growing 'anagen' phase. For those with telogen effluvium, more hairs will move into the telogen phase from the anagen phase, resulting in more shedding.
For example, individuals with this condition could lose as many as 300 hairs per day, three times the usual amount for a healthy head of hair. Although it's unclear exactly why, studies show that stressful experiences can cut the anagen phase short, pushing more hairs into the telogen phase. The hair loss may not be noticeable however until several weeks after the stressful incident in question.
Speaking with the Mirror in February, Paloma shared that she had undergone seven years in therapy to heal wounds by her father, who walked out on her when she was just two years old. She also spoke about being in a much better place following 'the most dramatic period' of her life, in which she parted ways with her husband and father of her children.
Admitting she initially harboured a lot of guilt over the split, Paloma explained: "When I first ended it, I felt I had to sort of keep up this idea that I could power through and continue to kind of do everything, and I think that I burned out, I do think that I had a kind of breakdown when I broke up with my kids' dad.
"Now I feel better in the sense that [I'm] a bit more kind to myself in knowing what I have capacity for. My priorities are clearer and less blurry to me than they've been for several years."
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