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“I’d Defend My Daughter Any Day”: Mom Living With Alopecia Weighs In On Chris Rock Smacking
She was aged 7 when she started to lose her hair.
Katrina Hoult has witnessed punch lines of cruel jokes due to her bald head, but the 39-Year-Old wouldn’t hesitate to defend her daughter, who also suffers from alopecia. The mum insisted that just because people call cruel taunts a joke doesn’t mean they aren’t hurtful and that it’s never appropriate to laugh about someone’s appearance.
This comes as Will Smith’s violent reaction to Chris Rock’s G.I Jane joke about Jada’s shaved head.
“I would defend my daughter with Alopecia at any time and any place without hesitation and with words that would make you think twice about doing it again. I am here to show her and you that you can be and are beautiful without hair,” Katrina wrote on Instagram.
But the Aussie mum wouldn’t use violence to do it, which is where she believes Smith overstepped the mark.
In an interview with 7News, Katrina shared: “You wouldn’t call someone out for being in a wheelchair or someone battling cancer – how is alopecia any different?” She believes that Smith should have taken the microphone to launch a verbal attack on his fellow comedian. She told 9Honey: “Could he not have grabbed the mic and said ‘Hang on a minute, Chris. What you said was completely disrespectful and inappropriate.”
“Everyone here knows my wife has alopecia and recently came out showing us people can be bald and still be feminine and attractive.”
Katrina was aged 7 when she started to lose her hair. What began as a soft spot of about the size of a 20-cent piece resulted in full-baldness in weeks. Her daughter was 10 when she found her first patch, and now she has hair loss across 70% of her head.
The condition had also attacked the hair on the mom-of-two face and eyes throughout her life.
Instead of allowing the disease to take over her self-confidence, Katrina becomes a role model for her kids.
Notably, her daughter’s diagnosis led her to take back control of the disease, which had initially left her to grow up feeling awkward and isolated from friends. As she tries her best to be strong for her daughter, Katrina is happy to show her harder moments online and had shared a tearful video on Instagram earlier this month.
However, Smith had apologized for slapping Rock, saying his reaction was unacceptable and inexcusable.
