Katie Price started "balding" after having children and admits it was a "traumatic" experience to lose her hair.
Katie Price
The 43-year-old British reality TV star has opened up on how her pregnancies for her five kids and years of harsh hair treatments, including extensions and bleaching, left her with the harsh reality that she was losing her long locks.
Appearing on Steph McGovern's TV show 'Steph's Packed Lunch', she said: "When I started modelling I had really long hair and started colouring it.
"I had kids and started balding, had extensions, but do you know what, I have to give my hair a rest.
"Hair is very important, it's your identity. For me it is a confidence thing.
"Losing your hair can be traumatic, whatever the reason. It could be genetic, stress related or the side effects of cancer treatments like chemotherapy."
Katie - who has five kids - has now embraced wearing wigs to change her hairstyle rather than keep on getting changes and cuts.
From now on, the former glamour model - who is engaged to Carl Woods - is going to wear her wigs with pride.
She said: "I love to change my hair every day. One day I'm blonde, the next brunette.
"Me and wigs have a relationship. I absolutely love them. These days it doesn't matter if you wear a wig or not, who cares? You can have so much fun with wigs.
"Wearing wigs isn't just a fashion choice. Like millions of women I've experienced hair loss ... I'm going to be wearing wigs all the time and showing them off."
This week, Katie was nominated for a National Television Award for her BBC documentary 'Harvey and Me', which showed her life caring for Harvey, 18, who has multiple disabilities, including being partially blind, having Prader-Willi syndrome and autism.
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