Proud to be bald: “Once you shave it all off, the hardest part is over”

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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 is necessarily the result of cancer or baldness. But nothing prevents bald people from accepting it. In this episode, Morgan, 39, an employee of a recruitment firm in La Rochelle, no longer sees himself with hair.

"I often compare my passport photo, taken at 25, with the face I have now. Of course, people don't recognize me, but some tell me it makes me look younger. At the time, my hair was losing thickness. I still have some, but I feel baldness coming. I prepare for it by cutting it shorter and shorter. Then when the Covid epidemic arrives and the hairdressers close, I buy clippers, I remove all the guards and I go in, I shave clean.

"My 5 and a half year old daughter sometimes confuses a photo of me as a child with her own. She always asks me where my hair is, and I tell her it fell on her head, proof e