I spent £ 40,000 in 13 hair transplants after I go bald at 21 – friends tangled me but do not make the same mistake I made

Before leaving the house, Spencer Stevenson will pull a hat and bend his head low.

It was in 1996 and the then 21 -year -old university student had become a “recluse” after losing his hair prematurely.

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“It was a huge blow, psychologically,” he says. “Was traumatic.”

Until his teenage years, Spencer had a hair head so rich that people were nourished by Hoff after the star of Baywatch David Hasselhoff, who had a similar full mane.

His hair also looked like those of his dad, Donald, who died in an accident when Spencer was a teenager.

“My father’s hair has always been the envy of many men, as he had so much,” recalls Spencer, who lives in Newark, nots.

“I was in my dad’s awe and I thought I would have hair like his.

“But, 21 years old at the university, he began to retreat rapidly and I began to fix it because I knew what was coming.

“All men on my mom’s side were completely bald by 25.”

By the way with the appearance of the mirror and seeing his hair become thinner and thinner, he decided to shave it.

But he then underwent friends who influenced his self -esteem.

“They called me Grant Mitchell and Slaphead,” says Spencer, 49, who is married to wife Natalie, 48, and has a 17 -year -old girl and boy.

“I got the insults personally. I think it influenced me as much as I had as much as my hair before and my identity was part of me.

“The baldness is a spirit cancer.”

22 years old, Steven went to travel and was so bored of his rapidly resilient locks that he sometimes wore wigs of real hair.

After seeing an ad for baldness treatments while watching Super Bowl in the US, Spencer chose to get the first of 13 hair processes – he finally spends £ 40,000 on businesses.

‘I lived under a hat for years’

But the first one went catastrophically wrong.

He says: “I saw an ad for hair rehabilitation treatments in a famous American clinic that I thought would solve all my problems.

“Hair transplants were not well known in Britain and one was taken as a taboo.

“But the US clinic promised it was ‘painless, fast and easy.’

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His first transplant was a “lane”, where the surgeons cut a portion from the back of the scalp where the hair is stronger and implant it forward.

However, it was poorly executed.

Spencer says: “It was not right. A tool is only as good as the hands that handle it.

‘They just wanted to the chair and mine money.

“I wanted to be Hoff again. We lived under a hat for years.

“All my friends date and lived life. But I was very disappointed and injured.

“Going bald is scary for every human being, especially for a young man.”

‘Thira to desperate people’

Spencer says he then began to develop suicidal thoughts.

“Clinics as they are so miserable,” he adds. “They are vultures and prey to desperate people.”

Then his hair line looked unnatural and had to wear makeup to hide the scars left with.

He says: “I felt as insecure, if not more, than before. My trust was destroyed.

“It was such a difficult time emotionally and mentally. I had stayed with a scar on the back of my head.”

It took at least six months to grow his hair, but when he did, he needed more surgery to look thinner.

Over next A few years he flew to America four times in different clinics to adjust his hair line. In 2010, aged 35, he confessed to friends and family for his races.

Natalie, who met 26 years old while traveling to New Zealand, had met from the beginning of their relationship and fully supported him.

“It’s a real rock,” he says. “Other people were anesthetized. When I took out my hat, it would be surprised, as I now had a full hair head and say things like,” I didn’t recognize you “.

“In 2020 I had a process that left me happy. It was held at the Harley Street Harley Clinic in London, where footballer Wayne Rooney had his treatments and now I can finally say that I look like Hoff again.”

But Spencer still works hard to minimize the chances of losing his hair again and takes a daily dose of 1mg Finasteride, a drug to prevent hair.

“I also use a pharmaceutical shampoo called Gromd,” he says.

“Hair loss can be avoided. If I had only known that before all these years I might not have to endure this.

“Even so, neither I nor Natalie regrets the money spent.

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Spencer, who is a professional hair loss consultant, is a huge supporter for men who know what help out there.

Says: “Many men jump into transplants as a first place and don’t need.”

It also wants men to know that it is okay to feel injured about hair loss and that it does not mean that it is in vain.

Says: “You do not have to suffer in silence. Hair loss in men is linked to the spiritual health problems. With social media, it’s even worse – you see people show their hair and beard and others who are not so lucky to rush to Turkey to get transplants. ”

One of Spencer’s passions exposes offensive clinics that advertise cheap offers – which says it is full of social media.

“I’m here, a lighthouse of light, in a treacherous industry,” he says.

“It’s like the wild, wild west out there.

“Instagram ads by saying,” Get this “may be dangerous. You should investigate the clinics correctly.

“When people think about getting a heart transplant they don’t look at Instagram.”

• Spencer is running www.spexhair.com and He has written a free e -book The hair that increases the truth about hair loss, hair transplants and his own experiences.