Proud to be bald: “While my oncologist talks to me, I imagine my head painted”

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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, Fanny, a 38-year-old Parisian makeup artist, has reclaimed her bald head due to cancer treatment thanks to her profession.

"During the six months of my chemotherapy, from July 2021 to January 2022, I was bald. My oncologist made it clear to me as soon as I received the diagnosis that I was facing a fairly aggressive breast cancer , and I had to start treatment quickly. Two weeks after the first injection, I