Many patients of alopecia, commonly known as hair loss, often wish that they could just get over their condition and live normal lives with a full head of hair. Women, most especially, are highly disturbed when they find out that they have been diagnosed with this condition. There are a lot of available treatments in the market (some are expensive while some may come in cheap) yet most of them just bring more depression to the patient especially when it is ineffective.

Perhaps it would be comforting to know that even celebrities can suffer from hair loss. There are some celebrities that simply choose to go bald and flaunt it rather than go worrying and going through numerous treatments.

1. Baldness and Refereeing

Pierluigi Collina is an Italian football referee. At present, he still works as a non-paid consultant to the AIA or Italian Football Referees Association. He is a highly-respected referee all over the world and people have fondly called him Kojak due to his baldness. It was in the 80's that Collina contracted a severe form of alopecia resulting to loss of facial and scalp hair.

2. Bald Swimmer

Duncan Goodhew is a famous athlete and is now also a motivational speaker. Goodhew is a swimming sport legend who has won a gold and bronze medal in the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow. He is bald not because he chose it to become good at his profession but because he contracted alopecia universalis (or total hair loss). Due to this condition, he has an advantage (due to hydrodynamics) when swimming.

3. Bald and On TV!

Gail Porter-is a famous television presenter in the UK. She married Dan Hipgrave, a guitarist of Toploader in 2001 and this union broke in the summer of 2004. The separation caused Porter to become depressed and to resort into drugs. Her condition soon worsened as stress, drug use and post-natal depression all collaborated to trigger alopecia areata.

She soon became an advocate on educating people about this condition. Even with her baldness, she refused to wear wigs. However, it is believed that her hair loss is not permanent and Porter did confirm that she might grow her hair back.

4. Actors Succumbing to Hair Loss

Patrick Stewart-best known for his role in Star Trek, is a multi-awarded actor (both on film and stage). Stewart has never been ashamed of his baldness, in fact, he was even included on the list of Sexiest Man on Television on the 1992 TV Guide.

Bruce Willis who wouldn't be able to recognize this hot and sexy action star? He starred in many unforgettable films such as Armageddon, Pulp Fiction, Sin City, The Sixth Sense and the Die Hard series. His hair noticeably receded in the late 90's. He eventually shaved the rest of it and started a trend among white males as did Michael Jordan among the African-Americans.

Celebrity or not, people can be afflicted with hair loss but this does not deter some to live their lives to the fullest. If you can, make the most out of baldness by being cool and shaving it all off.