The day following the interview on BFMTV by Édouard Philippe, where he talks regarding his loss of hair, Manon Ferezou, also suffering from alopecia, praised the media light put on this disease unknown to the general public.
“I’m touched.” Guest of BFMTV this Friday, Manon Ferezou, a professor of modern letters with alopecia, reacted to the testimony of the former Prime Minister regarding the disease.
Thursday, on our antenna, Édouard Philippe described his physical evolution, due to his loss of hair. “I have what is called alopecia. I lost my eyebrows and I don’t think they will come back. My beard has turned white and it’s falling out a bit. My hair is also falling out. The mustache is gone “, he developed.
Manon Ferezou, who lost all her hair a year ago, said she was “delighted with this visibility”. “I find it superb to shed light on the disease,” she added.
Face the gaze of others
Recalling that this disease was not “serious”, the professor of modern letters stressed that it was indeed “a subject in society”.
“I can say that I live like everyone else, except for this detail. I don’t have the courage to face the gaze of others every day,” she confided.
So she alternates, in public, between a wig (which can cost several thousand euros) and a scarf, even if for a few weeks, her hair and eyebrows have been growing back in places. However, she quickly decided to tattoo her eyebrows. In the private context, Manon Ferezou has “chosen to assume immediately vis-à-vis [sa] girl” to show him that he had to take charge and love himself as we are.
In this regard, the mayor of Le Havre had underlined: “I am lucky to be able to tell those who suffer from alopecia that the main thing is not how we look at them, it’s what they are.”
