"Accept Your Imperfection" Model Suffering Alopecia Shares Her Body Imperfect Secret

Life is about accepting who you are and enjoying the person of you to the fullest. Away from this, leaves you miserable and depressed. We can not crate ourselves neither can we to some extent control our body immune: we can only maintain what it gives us...

Model with Alopecia shares powerful video of herself without a wig to encourage people to 'accept their imperfections'

Lara Kitchen, from Perth, Western Australia, was just 14 years old and about to start high school when she started to lose her hair a disease know as Alopecia an autoimmune skin disease that results in the loss of hair on the scalp and elsewhere on the body.

For years she struggled with her mental health as she tried to accept the diagnosis.But now, six years on, Ms Kitchen, 20, has shared a video of herself without a wig to encourage women to embrace themselves and accept their imperfections.

'My hair started to fall out right before I started high school and I thought it was due to stress. But it became worse to the point where it was coming out in clumps,' Ms Kitchen told Daily Mail Australia.

'It started to fall out from my hair line and it gradually went up all the way. I hid it for months and would wear a headband to try and hide it from the people at school.

After seeing four doctors, a specialist told her she had Alopecia areata and that while the hair folicles were there, her hair was never likely to grow back.

'Then rumours started going around that I had cancer because people relate hairloss with cancer basically. That was what got me the most because I wasn't sick... it was that my body was just attacking itself and I didn't know how to cope with that.'

As a result of the Alopecia, Ms Kitchen was later diagnosed with anorexia and struggled with her mental health.

'They stemmed it back to when I lost my hair. Because I couldn't control what my body was doing itself I grasped on to being able to control my weight,' she explained.

'When I left high school I started to think about what had been going on and started to develop quite severe depression. I spent most of 2014 in a private mental health clinic because I wasn't dealing with it all.

'In July of last year I wasn't coping at all and got to my lowest point and majorly overdosed on prescription medicines. I was in the ICU for four days in an induced coma.'

But a miracle saw Ms Kitchen come out of it 100 per cent healthy and with a whole new take on life.

Although she is recovering from anorexia, Ms Kitchen has never felt better and wants to spread her positive message as far as possible. 

To help her do it, she decided to do a video with Francesca from Freedom Couture, who has been making her wigs for five years.  

'I want to show people of any age that they need to embrace what isn't perfect about them. That they need to embrace what is different. I am bald and that's what my imperfection is, just like others think they have a wonky nose or don't like their eye colour.'

Thus, accept your imperfection and love being yourself.