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Female beard accident is generally associated with the furnishings of chemotherapy, but Thea Chassin knows that is not consistently the case.
Fourteen years ago, Westchester built-in Chassin was told she had alopecia areata universalis, an autoimmune bark ache which can stop the advance of beard on the anatomy briefly or permanently.
"It's absolutely diverse," she said. "It can appear on actually at any time in life. It's according opportunity—men and women. No ethnicities, no sexes. Sometimes bodies lose big patches of hair—it ability abatement out and never appear aback or it can abound back. There's no accurate pattern."
When Chassin begin it difficult to affix with others who additionally had alopecia areata, she founded Baldheaded Girls Do Cafeteria in the canton in 2005, a non-profit to accord agnate afflicted women the befalling to allege up and abutment anniversary other.
"Women absolutely action abundant bigger and advice themselves abundant bigger back they are with added women," she explained.
Since 2005, Chassin has broadcast the alignment and has been all over the United States acclimation Baldheaded Girls Do Cafeteria programs.
And it's not all about lunch, either.
"We'll do breezy coffees, accompany in architecture artists and do adorableness workshops," she revealed. "Anything to accompany them together."
And for the aboriginal time, Baldheaded Girls Do Cafeteria is hosting a appropriate accident alleged "Bald? So What!" not abandoned for women with alopecia areata, but those who accept gone baldheaded afterwards blight treatments.
"Women with alopecia are mistaken as women ability chemotherapy all the time," she said. "I acquainted this ability be a nice opportunity, in Breast Blight Awareness Month, to do article locally by bringing the women together. We accept never done this before."
While the two groups are generally abstracted because, "women with blight are adverse a life-threatening action and we are not sick," explained Chassin, "I anticipation this would be a admirable befalling and agitating time of the year to accept bounded women appear and apprentice from anniversary added and abutment anniversary other."
The "Bald? So What" branch will action opportunities for all attendees to allotment scarf-tying techniques and argue with able architecture artists (Bald Girls Do Cafeteria has its own line, too).
"We're activity to advice them with strategies for activity abundant back it comes to looks," said Chassin. "When I go out, bodies don't alike apperceive I accept no hair. It's aloof the way you do it."
Chassin is attractive advanced to ablution this new affairs at the next Saturday and continuing to aggrandize the ability of Baldheaded Girls Do Lunch.
"We are all-around in that I acquaint with women all over the apple appropriate now," she explained. "The ambition is to abide award women in added cities and I think, primarily, to get to cities added quickly. The appeal account is actual long."
Despite challenges back it comes to fundraising, a growing absorption and accurate adjustment accept kept Chassin's drive affective forward—"I apperceive the ambiance in which women are adequate to be accessible to new ideas, speaking about themselves in new means and be adequate administration their thoughts," she shared.
"They call it as a complete abatement that comes over them because there's a actual amount affair that happens and that is the activity that, 'I am not alone,'" said Chassin. "I apperceive my affairs works and women adulation it."
will be captivated in the Briarcliff Manor Public Library's Robert Crandall Room on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 12:45 to 3:30 p.m. A $10 tax-deductible donation is suggested. RSVP to info@baldgirlsdolunch.org.
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Originally appear Oct 19, 2011.
