Kelsey Cotta

Female

Dallas, OR

United States

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Relationship Status:
In a Relationship
About Me:
I've had alopecia scenes I was born, only patches started to fall out and that was until I was 3 and then all my hair fell out. All through elementary school I hated the way I looked, I didn't understand why? my parents only told me what it was and nothing else, I had to learn the rest on my own. I always wore a hood or a hat cause I was tired people coming up to me wondering if i had Cancer or coming up to me and thinking I was a boy.

Surprisingly my hair started growing back in patches when I was in middle school cause they wouldn't let me wear a hat in school which was kind of good for me. when summer came along and I stared wear hats again my hair started falling out again.

When i started high school I was aloud to wear hat but I never took it off cause I was afraid of how my classmates would look at me.

My parents said they had wigs for me to wear when I was young but I didn't want to wear them because they made my head itch, plus I my friends said they couldn't see me with hair, they liked me the way i am and it makes me who I am today, I'm more lively, more talkative with my classmates.

I still wish i had hair but I think if my life would still be the same? would I have the same friends? and the same interest? but I'm happy the way I am.

Today I have tuns of friends who are always there for me, I love to draw anime, I'm kind of a nerd, I hope to be in animation business when i get older or a writer, try to get my story's out there.

I started wearing a wig with at the beginning of my junior year, and i feel so different (in a good way) i feel pretty, beautiful, but i knew i already was before i wore a wig. Guys come up to me now and they talk to me and flirt with me, which is different cause this never happens to me. I wear make-up now and i wear girls clothes cause now i think i look good in them, which i've always wanted to do, i've always wanted to feel girly and i've never felt that way before until now

when I found this site and other and about the women who were doing this and telling people about and understood i was going through I felt hopeful and good about myself and I'm just glad to be apart of this now.
Do you have alopecia?
Alopecia areata
Are you age 18 or older?
Yes - I am 18 or older

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  • LeslieAnn Butler

    Hello and welcome, Kelsey!
    How are you doing today?
    LeslieAnn

    Jul 29, 2009

  • Cheryl Jeffrey

    Hi Kelsey Your are a stong women who has the ability to rise above the challenges and make them work for you. As a young person who has had Alopecia totalis my entire life I struggle daily with this. I have been with my husband for 20 years and till this day he has never seen me with out my wig on or some sort of handkerchief I wear to bed. Someday I can be strong and no issues about going in public or my family for that matter with out anything on my head. You give me strength. Thank you.

    Jul 30, 2009

  • Peter McKennon

    You want to get in the animation business that's awesome!
    I'm actually attending the Art Institute for that very subject.

    Apr 8, 2011