What Happened to Steve Jobs’ Hair?
Dear Dr. Rassman,
This question is a little bit different, but I’m curious what your opinion is.
What happened to Steve Jobs’ hair? If you look here, he had a good head of hair until he was about 40, and then it all disappeared. Now I know Steve Jobs is a sick man, and has probably had several chemo treatments, but I always thought hair grew back after chemo. I also thought that if you didn’t have some hair loss in your younger years (20-30), that you would probably never progress to the level of balding Mr. Jobs has. Do you think his hair loss is genetic, or cancer-related?
Thanks!
While it is possible to lose hair later in life due to genetics, we can’t discount what Steve Jobs has gone through with all of his medical issues over the past decade or so. It looks like he was losing hair in his late 30s and 40s, and then he got ill, possibly exacerbating the hair loss issue and leading to weight loss.
Simply put — When chronic illness hits, you lose hair. His multiple medical problems (liver transplant, pancreatic cancer) clearly impacted his hair.
To be quite frank, his hair was not that great even in his 30s and 40s, based on the pictures that were linked to. It looks like if he actually grew it out now, it wouldn’t be all that different than it used to be. I think he got with the times and started cutting it short in recognition that that was a much cooler style.