Why Is Holly Forbes Bald-Headed? No, She Doesn’t Have Cancer – Still Sick? Every season of The Voice brings with it an incredibly gifted group of sing
Why Is Holly Forbes Bald-Headed? No, She Doesn’t Have Cancer – Still Sick? Every season of The Voice brings with it an incredibly gifted group of singers, many of whom have fascinating backstories and personal histories.
Holly Forbes has emerged as a standout performer on the current season of the competition, and she is presently a member of judge Ariana Grande’s squad. Even as Holly continues to wow the judges, others are curious about her personal background.
Who is Holly Forbes from ‘The Voice’?
Holly Forbes is a 30-year-old caregiver from Kentucky who first wowed the judges with a rendition of Elton John’s “Rocket Man” during her blind audition. She is a mother of two children, a daughter named Violet who is 7, and a son named Oliver who is 1. Holly is currently active on Instagram, where she’s already amassed more than 12,000 followers.
Holly was initially picked up by Kelly Clarkson following her audition but wound up losing in the knockout round. Instead of being eliminated from the competition, though, Holly was picked up by Ariana and has managed to remain on the show in the weeks since losing her knockout. Fans have generally been impressed by her performances to date, some have also wondered about one detail of her physical appearance.
Why is Holly Forbes bald?
As Holly has explained, when she was about 11 years old, she began experiencing seizures. In order to treat the seizures, she was put on medication that had the side effect of making her hair brittle and patchy. The combination of medications that she had to take ultimately led to her losing her hair completely, and she’s been bald ever since. As she explained on the show, music became a pathway to confidence after she lost her hair.
“For a kid, it’s not easy being bald,” she said. “At that time, I listened to music. It gave me confidence.”
Now, Holly has channeled that passion for music into her work on The Voice, and some fans think she could be a contender to win the whole competition. In a recent episode, she left her coach emotional after her performance of “The Dance” by Garth Brooks.
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Holly Forbes’ Hair Loss
According to reports, when Forbes was roughly 11 years old, she began experiencing seizures, which resulted in her being put on medication to help.
But that medication cocktail made her hair brittle and patchy, and she would end up losing her hair completely because of it.
She’s previously said that as a kid, it wasn’t easy being bald. “I listened to music; it gave me confidence.” That confidence has carried her all the way to The Voice stage, where she continues to dominate the competition.
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Coping With Hair Loss
Not everyone is able to embrace baldness like Forbes, and that’s OK.
Vivian Ruszkiewicz, a nurse practitioner with OhioHealth, a not-for-profit system of hospitals and health care providers in Columbus, Ohio, tells SurvivorNet that hair loss is one of the more “distressing” side effects of chemotherapy.
“It’s one of the things that people can see from the outside that people may know that you are ill,” she says, “and that poses a lot of stress for patients.”
She says that some people who only experience partial hair loss still choose to wear a wig, like many people who lose their hair completely, before chemo so that they’re prepared, “so they can feel more like themselves during chemotherapy.”
But it’s important to make peace with losing your hair, because with some chemotherapy drugs, the side effect of hair loss is inevitable. When coming to peace with this, some patients will sport wigs or scarves, while others embrace their baldness.
San Jose resident Teri Chow was 44 years old when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and she knew she would eventually lose her hair while undergoing chemo. In order to prepare her family, she decided to cut her hair into a short bob. However, as expected, she started losing her hair.
“I think it was shortly after the second round of chemo, so that would’ve been about four weeks after starting chemo, (my hair) started to fall out,” Chow says. “It was coming out in the shower (and) it was coming out just combing (my) hair.”
Some people may choose to shave their head as a way to avoid watching their hair fall out, but instead, Chow decided to start wearing a wig. For her, it was a humorous experience, especially since many people didn’t even realize she was wearing one.
“In fact at the school, the other moms at the school didn’t realize that I was going through this and they would compliment me on the wig and not knowing it was a wig,” Chow laughs.
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