Proud to be bald: “I also have a broken nose, am I going to have it fixed?”

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Feared by men, like Edouard Philippe , stigmatized for women: sporting a bare head is a symbol of detachment from the gaze of others. In the collective imagination, being bald necessarily results from cancer or baldness. But nothing prevents bald people from accepting it. In this episode, Jordan (1), 28 years old, educator in Rennes, preferred to shave his hair before baldness fell on him "like a hair in the soup".

"Until I entered adulthood, I had normal hair, even relatively long. Then baldness set in. At first, I could still let my hair grow to hide the thinning areas. But there came a time when that was no longer possible. So I cut it shorter and shorter. In front of the mirror, I explored the changes alone. I needed to take this time to understand this new me emerging in the mirror before facing the gaze of others.

“During a discussion with a friend who was also affected by baldness, I said laughingly, “ We’ll soon have to shave our heads.”