I was not nervous to talk with WTMJ-NBC Milwaukee’s co-host Molly Fay about hair loss, hair transplant surgery and my memoir, Headscape – but I was uncertain whether the interview would go well considering I was in Portugal. It went great, I thought, even across six time zones.
Molly Fay interviews Chris Schroder on WTMJ NBC Milwaukee’s The Morning Blend TV show about Headscape.
Molly asked great questions, including why I even wrote the book in the first place. The answer is men don’t talk about hair loss or balding. Her response was hilarious, “Chris, I’d believe anything you’d say after you said the words, ‘men don’t talk about …’
I’ve always been open in my columns and blogs through the years about a lot of my shortcomings and my emotional challenges, such as divorce, separation from my children, deaths of my parents, etc. People have appreciated my openness. Yet, balding and hair loss and the easy, affordable solutions to them through hair transplant surgery seem to be something men really don’t talk about.
Since “Headscape: how a bald guy replanted his hair and restarted his life” published in May, I’ve had a number of men who read the book contact me and ask questions. They admit they’ve never addressed the personal subject of hair loss. When I invite them to let me quote them about it, they say, “Oh no! I’d never be as open about personal subjects like you are.”
I used to be shy about personal topics too, but I learned in 1994, when I first started writing a personal column in the neighborhood newspaper I founded, now Atlanta INtown, that readers really respond to men being vulnerable in public. The more I wrote about subjects that were touchy and revealed my emotions, the more response I got. I kept going deeper, a few times, perhaps, at my own peril.
Nevertheless, I really hope to be invited on more TV shows – Molly’s was my second after Cincinnati’s Fox 19 Now – in my effort to help more men talk about this subject. Also melanoma, a side subject in my book that was discovered and surgery for which probably helped save my life, only thanks to my closely watching my hair regrowth in photographs. I’m not in this to sell books so much, although everyone who has bought it has reported they loved it and read it in three to four hours, as to help men (and women who represent 15% of hair transplant patients) consider such an easy procedure.
The journey has been fun. I look forward to continuing it.
Written by : Chris Schroder
