Legendary screen star Patrick Stewart is thought for his iconic bald ‘do, having putting it promptly on display in his acting roles, corresponding to playing Professor X within the “X-Men” series.
Nonetheless, the 83-year-old scored his shiny head sooner than fans realize.
He explained in his recent memoir “Making It So” that it was on the age of 17 when he began to loose strands.
By 19, his head was completely bald.
The “Star Trek: The Next Generation” alum revealed that he tried to pay for hair loss treatments at a clinic in Bristol.
“I had grown up with thick, dark, wavy hair, but in my first yr of drama school, after I was 17, it began to thin out at an accelerated rate,” he recalled, per the Evening Standard.
The English actor noted that the more his hair diminished, he mustered up the courage to call the cosmetic hospital and “have a chat with the people inside.”
“They told me what the treatment would cost. That’s when I noticed I needed extra cash in my pocket,” Stewart penned.
So as to earn enough money for the clinic, Stewart began laboring as a bricklayer near his home in West Yorkshire, England.
“Just up the road from my parents’ house was the office of a small constructing firm. I walked in, found the boss, and asked him if he had any unskilled work available only for three weeks,” he reportedly wrote.
The “Gnomeo and Juliet” actor scribed that while he was in a position to earn enough dough from the firm for the procedures, they unfortunately didn’t work. “The clinic treatments in Bristol that I’d invested my hard-earned bricklayer money into achieved nothing,” he added.
He underwent “three or 4 sessions,” which involved putting electrode patches on his scalp, in addition to hand massaging “and the applying of varied creams.”
“But it surely was hopeless,” Stewart said. “By the age of 19, I used to be as bald on top as I’m now.”
