Why don’t the rich and celebrities get hair transplants?
If you have money for transplants, is there a reason you would still have a balding head or fully bald? Hulk Hogan’s son, for example, could easily afford a transplant but never did and eventually went bald. I also know a lot of balding rich people, even younger ones.
This is a great question. Some people don’t mind being bald or partially bald. When I look at Gene Hackman (actor) and watch the frontal hairline disappear over his career, I note what an excellent candidate he would make. But Gene Hackman’s fame was at a time when hair transplants were deforming procedures, not like today. Frank Sinatra had a hair transplant, and I am told he wore a wig for many years. I know that Sinatra was angry as hell because one of his best friends, another celebrity whom I transplanted, had a conversation with Sinatra, who was “Burned” by the grotesque look his hair transplant surgeon gave him. Unfortunately, he never knew the era when good hair transplants were commonplace.
Not everyone cares about their balding. We did surgery on a celebrity with a hairline like Gene Hackman, but he refused to let us restore his normal hairline; he just wanted to reinforce the thinning element of his heavily receded hairline. He did that because people knew him with a receded hairline, so he wanted to keep his image the same. This is an important insight. The lesson I learned here is that not everyone wants a normal hairline after they lose it.
I performed a hair transplant on the CEO of a multibillion-dollar company. He loved his results, and most people thought he was working out to look younger. He told me he was amazed that no one in the company, or his friends and family (other than his wife), knew he had his hair transplanted. A few years later, his company published its annual newsletter, and someone from his marketing department pulled an old picture of him to use in the newsletter, the balding photo of him. He was furious. Many of his employees figured out that he must have been transplanted. His secret was out. He told me that this event brought him back to his balding sense of self that he thought was long gone.
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