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October 2007
Bald girls invited to do lunch
Oct 2007
Mesa resident Yvonne King originally posted a dazzling photo of herself on
MySpace.com to show girls that it's OK to be bald.
Then the Internet worked its magic.
On Saturday, King will help host Arizona's first luncheon for women with
alopecia areata, an immune-system condition that causes hair loss.
Unlike the fleeting baldness of chemotherapy, alopecia's impact can last a
lifetime, although its sufferers remain healthy. advertisement
Bald Girls Do Lunch at the Marriott Suites Old Town in Scottsdale promises to be
equal parts support group, consciousness raiser and beauty school, says King,
43, who learned of the event through the digitized "word-of-mouth" MySpace
offers like-minded people.
The cyber trail led to Thea Chassin, a Westchester, N.Y., physical therapist who
founded the non-profit lunch group after she lost her long brown hair 10 years
ago.