Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hairline?
How did Arnold Schwarzenegger maintain his hair especially in his younger heavy steroid using days. It seems if DHT was the cause of hairloss he would have lost it all from all the testosterone they were using.
Over the years as Arnold aged his hairline did recede quite a bit but this was when he was much older and I believe he sorted it out with a hair transplant. Similarily Frank Zane in his younger days had a full set of hair presumably on a ton of juice – and he seemed to have lost it in his old age too.
Arnold probably does not have the genes for balding. It’s simple.
I don’t know that his hairline really moved all that far back. I’ve seen some photos from his younger bodybuilding days with a similar hairline to what he has now. His hairstyle back then seems to be hiding the corners, making it difficult to see. The straight across hairline from the Terminator movies was likely Hollywood movie magic to create the character’s look (why give a robot from the future a mature hairline?). Or maybe he had work done. I don’t know.
Arnie had a mature hairline from about 21 – in the first terminator film he is given a wig as he was required to have slowly disintegrating hair after each successive burning/damage. If you watch the making of the films he actually points out where it is his own hair and when it’s a wig to be burnt. When it’s his own hair it’s a normal mature hairline.
In terminator 2 & 3 they had to reuse wigs to try and copy the earlier look (obviously a robot shouldn’t age).
I don’t think Arnie has ever really balded. The steroid use was relatively high (though a tiny fraction of what today’s bodybuilders use) but if he didn’t have the genes for balding this wouldn’t matter. And a mature hairline does not require the balding genes obviously as it happens to many men who retain their hair.
That’s a pretty lo-res pic. Higher resolutions seem to reveal at least significant thinning of the frontal forelock. At least he’s had no work done there, then?
See:
https://www.contactmusic.com/pics/lf/the_expendables_2_premiere_10_130812/arnold-schwarzenegger-the-expendables-2-uk-premiere_4030935.jpg