Hair Loss and Caleb Followill (Singer from Kings of Leon)
Caleb Followill – the lead singer of popular band ‘Kings of Leon’ is showing signs of balding. He is a norwood 2.5, maybe even a norwood 3. Now, I’m not sure if you know this, but Kings of Leon consists of 3 brothers and 1 cousin. Caleb is the *only* one showing any signs of balding, and he isn’t even the oldest of the brothers (yes he is one of the brothers, not the cousin). Is it possible the rest of the family members escaped the balding gene? Or could they have had medical intervention to tackle balding?
There is also an interesting story of Caleb commenting on his baldness here.
Anything is possible, I suppose. He might be the unlucky one that has the balding gene, and his brothers were spared. Perhaps the rest of the family is taking medication and he isn’t. Maybe he does feel added stress, which has accelerated his genetic hair loss.
There’s no way for me to know with absolute certainty why the one brother is losing hair and the rest of the siblings aren’t, but I’d say it is just the genetic cards he was dealt.
I know lots of siblings with very different hair loss patterns and those with random members who have no balding. I had an early Norwood 2.5 at 30 reversed to a 2 in the past two years. My younger brother is a Norwood 5 and lost his hair in his early 20s. Interestingly we had numerous hormone tests for various athletic and medical pursuits and I have a much higher androgen levels over my life. So it’s purely genetic misfortune that he lost more hair than me, both earlier in life and to a greater extent.