Plastic Surgeon Reveals: JADA PINKETT SMITH : ALOPECIA or PLASTIC SURGERY? 

As soon as I saw that, I immediately thought “I hope Will Smith doesn’t slap you for this” 😂

Nurse here….Not alopecia- her scalp has no bald spaces. There is even hair stubble, alopecia there are NO hair follicles visible.

As a barber and from seeing scalps for 49 years: I have NEVER seen "alopecia" in a straight line! 😂😂😂😂

Alopecia causes hair loss not scars. She could have had a brow lift and still have Alopecia, they're not exclusive of each other

Alopecia usually occurs in circular patches and isn’t just localized to one small area and I’ve NEVER seen a linear pattern. I had androgenic alopecia from having high T, and my sister had alopecia areata from high stress. Neither of ours looked like Jadas supposed alopecia.

That line usually happens from wigs and weaves stressing the hair follicles and that line is exactly where the edge of the wig gets secured. If you get the same style for months at a time, it’s stresses and breaks off the hair and damages the scalp causing balding.

She's kept her hair short for decades and she's always looked good. If that line is alopecia, it's definitely not affecting her looks. I know hair loss freaks women out, but if you look good, you look good. There's no reason to get upset about a joke and let your husband commit a felony on live television when you're gorgeous, especially a joke that compares you to someone equally gorgeous.

I have androgenic alopecia, which is another name for hereditary hair thinning. Jada does not look like she has hair loss anywhere. I have visibly noticed thinning in my crown area. I just wish she would not falsify stuff like this. The stubble on her head shows that her hair is growing in just fine. Choosing to shave one’s head does not make one have alopecia.

This looks like "wig line" traction alopecia. I've personally known stage actors that developed this as a result of sensitivity to glue. She has another linear strip on the side of her head that would be correct placement for hair pieces and, given that she is/was a musical performer, would make sense. TLDR she's full of it.

I wondered the same thing. She appeared to have a headfull of short shaved stubble. That is not alopecia.

As someone with Alopecia Areata and shaved my head twice …it’s grows back but it’s always been circular hair loss. Caused by my immune system attacking my hair follicles when I stress. She puts herself in stressful situations 🤔

My best friend suffers from alopecia and this looks nothing like what I've seen. I haven't been convinced she has it.

Alopecia usually is hair loss in round area's not a straight line

as soon as i saw that scar i immediately thought brow lift lol! thats not alopecia

I knew as soon as I saw it, that it was from a brow lift. I’m a hairdresser and I’m very familiar with the scars due to plastic surgery. Another explanation is her hair loss has been caused from traction to the roots of the hair due to braiding. This constant pulling will actually stress the roots so much, they die. Braiding can also be used to provide a base that wefts and hair pieces can be hand sewn to. This allows a wig, hair piece or fall to be securely attached to the head to allow for swimming, showering and exercise. All this stress over time to our hair can cause permanent hair loss.

I wondered this as I suffered from Alopecia on the sides due to autoimmune illness (I have Lupus SLE) AND when I was younger I pulled my hair too tight on the sides into barrettes on top. It caused weakening of the hair and shaft and loss of hair as well. I hide it well, but a little bit never came back on the sides. Careful ladies hair IS sensitive and you can damage yours permanently. Thankfully there are wonderful products and remedies that are hugely beneficial for hair. A relaxed, natural hair style is good for regrowth, and I used a combo of supplements good for hair growth especially adding in Keranique products as well as Viviscal. It worked wonders for me. 😁 For the record I HAVE NO SCARS HOWEVER.

yes, i am a qualified hairdersser in U. K. and always thought the straightness of the bald patch was strange having dealt with many clients suffering alopecia, the areas have ALWAYS been circular though not always a uniform circle. 🤷🏿‍♀️

There’s also alopecia caused by damage to the scalp and follicles. Especially if you’ve spent years wearing weaves and wigs that are glued on, had hair tightly braided or chemically relaxed.

I'm not familiar with brow lifts, but, I was Always doubtful about the Alopecia with Jada

I immediately wondered about this. I had a brow lift in March and I have a few scars that (so far) the hair hasn't grown back. It looks very similar to her pictures. I just add a little brown eyeshadow over the spots for now and have no issues

oh no!!! it’s about to get into a bigger issue. i’m so happy i found Dr youns channel

Quick note: She admitted after the slap….it was self diagnosed 🙄

I occasionally suffer with alopecia and it presents in circles. The hair grows back in the spots in a few weeks or months. My personal experience.

browlift surgery can cause hairloss shock symptoms wich is simillar to Alopecia.

Soo many people trivialize alopecia by saying it's not life threatening. Yes I agree, but it's life changing. My hair used to a big part of my identity and losing it at 19 was very devastating. You don't know the feeling of everyone staring at you like you're a freak or bullying you or making snide comments and passing it out as a joke. Especially if you're a woman as many if not in most culture a woman's hair is seen as the sign of health and fertility, it's the first thing people see. Let's not make a joke out of it

I know that she has had procedures done through out the years! I've never seen alopecia in a straight line, on top of a scalp! Patches of hair gone, eyebrows, eye lashes and balding is the norm!

I had alopecia twice. First time I was depressed and freaked out for a while. The second time, I didn’t have the energy to care and just walked around with my bald spot being kissed by the sun and stroked by the wind for about a year. 😂

Hello from the very beginning from the get-go me and might have other people said that alopecia is patches what she did not have she had a high forehead and you can see the new growth of hair coming after that all of the back and some other person said that scar was a brow lift she caused all that trouble that night over a lie you could see the new growth all over her you could see the new growth all over her head

I’ve had alopecia and it’s NOT like that. It’s in circular patterns. She’s a terrible person and deserves everything coming her way

The scar is old. It honestly looks like permanent follicle damage due to wearing braids, wigs or weaves. Braiding can cause irreversible tension or traction based alopecia which can leave scars very similar to hers if it’s repeated. It’s interesting I’ve seen no BP talking about it because we know that there is likely a clear factor related to alopecia even if she doesn’t want to talk about it. Chemical burns due to color, perms, relaxers can also cause that type of permanent scarring. Jada was forever coloring and relaxing her hair, as well as braiding her hair. Because BW tend to manipulate our hair a lot, getting some form of hair loss or alopecia later in life is a real probability, So many people of no color fail to understand that people of color tend to scar (scars both light, dark, raised and flat) VERY easily due to keloids or melanin especially around the head, face and neck. My cousin bit me when I was 8 years old on my décolleté area. A tiny scar that should’ve healed easily, but I’m over 50 and can still see and feel that tiny 3/8” keloid scar. Same thing on my knee. I fell around 11-12 and have what looks like healed road rash about an inch in near perfect circumference. I was running a race and landed or rather skidded on concrete. To look at it you’d think it had happened just a couple of years ago, not 40. I would’ve honestly appreciated you talking about those more plausible factors vs reinforcing potential inaccuracies without providing a more likely cause. Although I appreciate the squashing of the brow lift theory. ♥️

You can tell it's not alopecia. I have a friend who actually has alopecia and she is completely bald, no growing hair like jada does...

My daughter lost all of her hair when she was in 6th grade and she was so brave about it! It all grew back and was just past her shoulders but it’s starting to fall out again. I would give anything to trade places with her so she doesn’t have to go through it again!!! 😔

Thank you. She does not have alopecia! She has no signs of the disease.

On that Doctors video a commenter who was a hair stylist said she saw this scar on clients who had a brow lift. He said it might appear later on, when the hair is thinning it is more noticeable. Older women’s hair sometimes gets thinner later in life the older they get.

I dont know what Jada is dealing with. I do know that I watched a Red Table talk episode that made me cry. The episode was about women who decided to cut their hair almost completely off for different reasons. In that episode Jada uplifted those women by giving them a make over by a celebrity stylist. It didn't matter what the reason was for their decision to cut the hair. BUT in that same video she said that she had no medical reasons to cut her own hair and that she just did it. That reading or hearing about hair holding energy and she'd wanted to do it for a while and how freeing it was once she did. I remember she mentioned Alopecia but said she did not have Alopecia. Now almost 2 years later she does have it? God bless her is all I know . One of my daughters has bald spots of different sizes sprinkled through out her hair. She has been diagnosed yet but It looks nothing like what Jada "has".

That line looks like result of hair weave traction. Traction alopecia. Common in older women in the salon that wore weaves often when younger. That spot also looks like hair loss due to the interior clips/combs of wigs. Most traction alopecia from weaves seems to be at the edges because they are the weakest. Some women leave their edges out of weaves in order to save them from being ripped out. So its common to have the weave start farther back on the head like that area Jada has trouble with. In the salon we also see bald lines like that in the ponytail area due to ponytail extensions. A straight or square hair piece or weave track will pull the hair out in straight lines like that. A round hair piece will cause rounded or circle bald spots

I have had episodes of Alopecia Areata....Alopecia areata is more of a circle rather than a line.

Where there is a will there is a slap

I have uneven thinning of hair around my left temple and at the crown of my head and it's getting very noticeable at the front. I had an eating disorder in my twenties and I'm now 36 and my hair never fully recovered from the lack of nutrients and with hormonal changes with age my poor hair has been through a lot. Due to the increasing volume of hair loss I'm going to shave my head and become a lady of multiple amazing wigs. I've had short hair before so taking charge of it feels right 👍

Dr. Youn, the look on your face in some of the still shots used for your upcoming videos are just hilarious! You make this a lot of fun to learn about. Have a good day!

I have alopecia and met many others with it. The only ones i have ever met with that kind of loss is those who did wigs and weaves and hair extentions. Immune alopecia usually is in circular patches or clumps.

💛 I personally never believed she has alopecia, she has way too much hair follicle for that. My question is, why does she choose to shave her head and not just hide those small spots with her hair? Very strange indeed. 😳

My mum had stress alopecia which in some areas is in patches but in certain areas is more of a straight line from where her plaits lined up. If that area of from styling I think it could easily be in a straight line

I said she had a facelift, my aunt has the same scar and because her face is now tighter than ever. Alopecia also runs in my family, I've never seen it look like that 🤣

Jada "Chris is making fun of my illness" Girl... sit the fuck down. She doesn't even have patches. Her hair literally grows in fine. When her hair starts growing, you see no patches ANYWHERE. The straight line is most likely an eyebrow lift because even though she has naturally high brows, they do droop as you get older. I've seen many people with alopecia as well as watched videos, I've never seen a straight line happen with alopecia. Only patches.. Not too mention people with alopecia don't call it an illness. Cause it's not. It's just hair loss. There's nothing life threatening, there's no harm. It's just bald spots or almost complete baldness like -

It could be from where she be wearing wigs sometimes

Patrick Stewart has alopecia, Ayanna Presley has alopecia. Jada Pinkett Smith does not have alopecia.

I don’t think she’s got alopecia. I think her hair has thinned as she’s aged. It’s pretty typical for women. Mine has. As far as the scar goes, could be brow lift or could be simply she had an accident and now there’s a scar. I think she’s going through her midlife crisis. Seeing she’s aging. Wanting to seek out a medical explanation to cover for her thinning hair. Because this literally came out of left field. She probably freaked out as a person does and shaved her head out of frustration. She looks like based on stubble she’s got hair. Just maybe not as much as she used to.

You forgot to explain how alopecia results in a linear scar on the Carona operation site.

Dr Gary Linkov has also made a video about the same thing a while back, and he also being someone with Alopecia Ariata, also mentioned the line on Jada's head as looking like something from a plastic surgery procedure. You can also see from his videos the progression of the condition on his hair and appearance, something I cannot see in Jada. Okay, she may have shaved off her hair but as someone who has black hair, you can still see the hair on her head, which does not look like how Dr Linkov's looked like.

Thank you for covering this!

he should upload now instead of when others see this

Alopecia leaves dents on the scalp where the hair roots lived

When I was 12 my hair started falling out in the back under my hair. I showed my sister when it was the size of a half dollar and begged her not to tell my mom. A few weeks later I showed my sister again, and by then it was like a 2 1/2 in. x 3 in. spot bald. My mom took me to a country doctor, he told her it was alopecia, he gave her this liquid medication to swab the area daily. He told her maybe it would grow back or maybe not. It grew back in very thinly/fine hair. Never completely grew in thick. Now many years later I have psoriasis, it first cropped up all over that same area and my hair is very thin again in this area. Fortunately for me mine is in the back under hair and not real noticeable. With all my psoriasis I worry about the alopecia reactivating... I never had scarring to my knowledge only very thin hair in that area.

I really enjoy your videos and am SO impressed with your beautifully glowing, healthy looking skin.

I'm glad doctor that you brought this to everybody's attention I'll because she chose to shave her head rather than people looking at her High forehead with her son's friend that young guy she was going with she had the high forehead and then she had braiding at the back or she claims it was alopecia no there's pictures of her and that young guy with her braids

That small scar would not have shown with all her hair , she choose to shave it off , then pretended to be upset about it ,

Thats a noticeably raised scar and damaged follicles, thats not what loss of root looks like. Maybe she does have it, but the spots she saying are alopecia spots aren't, they are scar tissue from something else. Which yes would cause hairloss, but that doesn't straight up translate into alopecia or atleast in the technical sense when we think of it. It doenst look like traction alopecia especially looking at the texture, if you look up what a traction scar looks like you know what i mean. it looks like she had some sort of like you suggested brow lift or chemical scarring, its too thick and raised to be of any autoimmune variety of alopecia, and she doenst have any visible sores or other in the area to suggest other scalp conditions in tangent that could lead to such a keloid. Looks like my brothers scar. As kids we fought over the remote a lot and one time I got him good in the head with the remote. Not as big, but healed like that. Which leads me further to believe it was an injury more of the physical kind than the tension or chemical kind. Friends forehead healed the same when she cut her forehead in an accident. That was an incision at one point. Again maybe she does have a very mild case of alopecia (I can't look at her scalp in person afterall) but those spots she's showcasing as such aren't, I can see enough detail to know that.

She’s so beautiful naturally

It's very rare and can be seen in some cases of lupus but linear alopecia (hair loss in a straight line) does exist.

I thought so. They outright lie

I have alopecia and it falls out in chunks. Never in a line. I also am a nurse and worked in plastic surgery. Umm. That’s a brow lift scar.

She used to do a commercial for Carol's Daughter, I believe. She said how it helped her hair grow. She used three hair oil. I believe it was back around 2007 and maybe a little later. When you're bald, you notice other women too. Plus I was looking to learn how to make myself look better.

I did hair for years and I never believed she had alopecia .. it would be patchy … her hair is growing In uniformly

She had a number 2 crew cut at the awards, where we could barely see any hair loss. Then we see she's had her hair cut shorter, obviously to accentuate the linear loss of hair at the top of her head to the public. She was "diagnosed" nearly 4 years ago.... I seriously doubt her claims of Alopecia 🙄😒

I don’t know about Jada...my daughter had Alopecia when she was 13 or 14 years old...she had to get extremely painful steroid shots to her scalp...her Alopecia does not look anything like what my daughter suffered 🤔

Omg I love that doctor his voice is so calming I will fall asleep to it

I did find it very odd seeing that line across. I thought, at first, that it looked like a surgical scar....Alopecia usually appears in circular patches. My cousin has a type of Lupus, not the systemic one, that makes her lose her hair. Hers are in circles. Not a straight line. Maybe she does have alopecia, but because she knows the scar will be noticeable, she uses that excuse to cover up. Her eyes do look different though to when she was younger.

Alopecia is quite devastating for some women and it's kinda sad that it would need to be proven to anyone else. 😕

I knew she was lying about the alopecia when I saw her with the shaved head without having bald spots. She is the only person I've ever seen who suffers from alopecia without bald spots on her head. Wearing her head shaved with no bald spots. I would know since I had a couple of friends who suffer with it the hair comes out in patches... not in a perfectly straight line.

She momentarily suffered from hair loss but her hair had already grown back. She's currently bald now because she was inspired by her daughter Willow that recently decided to rock the shaved head look. If you look in her head she has hair cut really which means it can grow back.

I love the white bald doctor he’s so honest

I'm not saying one way or the other what she did...but I have had two brain surgeries. The first surgery I was cut from say the left side of my head above the eye, behind the hair line, then across and down to the right ear. When I pull back my hair, you can only see the scar at the frontal part of my head. So, say no further than the mid eyebrow. So, she very well could have had something done, and also having the money she has...she could had had some laser or other scar treatment. Blah, blah, blah. I'm going to leave it at that. Oh, one more thing. Thanks for all the good info.

Akoepacia have patern..i have long thick hair but developed slight aloepacia after giving birth...it ll have patchy scally hairloss with pattern..now somehow it's in control..

I didn't know she had alopecia..I just thought she had a beautiful bald head..and she was rocking it..she looks beautiful..

At least Dr. Youn ain't at the Oscars right now😅

Has anyone seen her mother? Jada has great genes, she inherited from her mother.

It could also be from working in and industry where extensions and wigs can cause hair loss. So might it be possible she has both? Quite frankly she looks stunning bald. I can't imagine losing your hair as an adult women from alopecia or anything else. Hair is part of us, our style, confidence, and societies definition that definition = or is related to gorgeous hair. I lost my hair in 2016 during chemo. I knew it would eventually grow back, yet I was still embarrassed. At 1st I drew on my eyebrows, glues on lashes, and wore wigs. It for to a point during treatment I was so exhausted, I stopped caring about things like that which were silly, stop caring if people stared, and just focused on what mattered most keeping a positive mindset, pushing thru the treatments, and getting better for my kiddos. Because in the end I wanted to still be there for them for the next 30 years. It no longer mattered if people stared at my bald head and missing eyebrows and lashes or judged me, the only opinions that I valued was theirs the two amazing little humans that mean the most to me. My lashes, brows, and hair came back with time. My once thick long straight hair, is now finer and surprise it came back curly. So now I have beach waves every day 🙃. Jada has shared she won't have that same Luxury hers will not grow back. I think we should focus on the strength and bravery it took her to not hide it with wigs. Yet publicly share her diagnosis and decide to be natural and embrace what she looks like now. I think folks should remember her career was based not only on her talent, it was also based on her looks. And the industries skewed definition of what they define is beautiful. Which is B.S. No I don't think its acceptable to Crack jokes about her or anyone who has shared they are navigating a life altering illness. Whether visible or hidden. I think the focus needs to shift from people trying to be detectives and find out "if she really has alopecia ". And shift to treating her the way we wanted to be treated. With kindness, empathy, and compassion. Or simply just mind our buisness. It's simple. The Golden Rule treat others the way you want to be treated. We all learned it in Kindergarten. We are also all guilty (me included) in forgetting that rule sometimes and just being versions of ourselves we really don't want to be. I wish her and anyone else struggling with anything publicly or privately Good Vibes and Good Things. The 🌎world is a mess right now, Global Pandemics, people losing loved ones, war and deplorable war crimes in Ukraine, inflation, people and families in financial crisis, mental health 😢 struggles taking lives, environmental crisis. Heck we all can go on and on about the things we should be focusing on, commenting on, and questioning. Imo that sure as heck isn't Jada Pinket Smith. It's also not right to use her alopecia announcement as a distraction to get our minds off of the things we should be concerned about. Okay I'm stepping down from my 🧼📦 📢soap box. I'm not saying I'm right or anyone is wrong. Just sharing my opinion. By all means feel free to agree or disagree. Either way I truly wish everyone health, good vibes, and a great week. 👍

Don’t get yourself smacked dr youn 😬😂

Ugh she’s so annoying and such a drama queen!

Whether she has it or not is not my concern. Yet, some of these comments make my eyes roll. I love how the "experts" are that since they know someone with it. 🙄 I suffer from alopecia. I've had bald spots grow back just for another spot to fall out. Sometimes i have hair sometimes I dont. I didn't have edges I mean bald bald for 2 years and this year I have edges. Alopecia is unpredictable and no one has it exactly the same. Stress for me is not always a trigger my hair disappears because it's Tuesday 🤷🏾‍♀️

I have had alopecia and they arent scars its hair loss which can lead to partial hair loss or complete hair loss. And generally caused from excess Stress and can grow back. Very hard for a woman to have to go through. what worked for me was hair extensions as it was only a few bald spots but thankfully it grew back and no longer needed extensions🥰

I feel Jada have alopecia from wearing braids, wigs and weaves. Wigs, braids, and weaves are the number one cause of alopecia in African American women.

She said she's been "struggling with it".... maybe she meant struggling to get it after doing the Super Sayin stance! 👀

Well said Doctor Youn thank you for your brilliant clarification .

I can't wait to see it

Dr. Youn What if she had Telogen Effluvium - there appears to be a lot of even regrowth coming through ?? Also, isn’t it at all probable/possible that she had both a surgical issue and a hairloss issue concurrently?

It’s from a coronal brow lift. I have the same thing

Traction alopecia is very common in women who put a lot of stress on their follicles from wigs, braids, extensions etc. Although it’s not areata it still is alopecia.

Ohh u might of hit the nail 😂

And now she magically has a full head of hair again

as someone who actually has alopecia, I don't think that's what caused the line on her head. mine when it would act up would fall out in half dollar size patches all over my scalp. I would end having to go to my dermatologist and have injections in the bald spots to get my hair to start to regrow

I have the same white band which caused my dermatologist to diagnose me with frontal fibrosing alopecia. My hair has come back in places but not where it’s scarred. There are so many forms of alopecia which simply means loss of hair. Most cases will have patchy hair regrowth. I hope people don’t think I’ve had a very ineffective face lift.

I don't even have to watch this to know the difference. She's not being exactly truthful - says a brow lift, thin-haired blonde!!!

Dr.. You're usually so on. This is def a brow lift scar. I don't think you've been following Jada like we have been for years we immediately noticed her facial change the past 5 yrs. I have alopecia and I've never in my life seen it like this. Ever. Linear?

I saw a commercial just now and the kid has it and was so cheery. She said "I just want to let everyone who has this that's it ok and you all should live happily bec it shouldn't change your way of life." I wish Jada would see this as well. She shouldn't make such a big deal of of it.

couldnt her "scar" be from traction alopecia especially if she was getting braids that regularly fell along the same line?

How do you have so much energy to be a practicing plastic surgeon and create all this content? . It’s literally exhausting just thinking about it. I need your secrets so I can do more in my day

Dr. Youn be careful. He might come!

From what I see, there are hair "roots" in the remainder of her scalp. Isn't alopecia like balding where there are no roots? That's said, the "alopecia line" or brow raise scar, would have been covered/concealed by the surrounding hair growth.