CELEBRITIES WITH THIN HAIR
WAYNE ROONEY
Celebrities With Thin Hair. Unlike soccer gods David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney is not exactly worshiped for his looks. (Indeed, the movie star Wazza is most often compared to is Shrek.) But when the 25-year-old striker started losing his hair while very young, he decided to strike back. This summer, Rooney spent a reported £30,000 on a hair transplant and tweeted a TMI photo to his followers immediately afterward. “Hi all there's my head. It will take a few months to grow. Still a bit bloody too. But that's all normal. #hairwego.” But the new Roo ‘do is also helping his game—Rooney is off to a superb start in the English Premier League this season and, ironically, credits all his success to his barber.
JON CRYER
Celebrities With Thin Hair. Though a high school photograph of Ashton Kutcher looking balder than Bruce Willis recently emerged, it’s actually his Two and a Half Men costar Jon Cryer who has been pulling the wool near his eyes for years. On the morning of this year’s Emmy Awards, the 46-year-old Cryer was photographed competing in the Malibu Triathlon with a considerably thinning hairline. Several hours later, he was onstage at the Emmys with nailed-in hair. The only thing more impressive than Cryer’s sudden transformation? The ratings for Two and Half Men’s season premiere.
JOHN TRAVOLTA
Celebrities With Thin Hair. John Travolta’s hair loss issues are such an open secret that the 57-year-old star has been daring to go bare lately—or at least be seen without one of his many hairpieces. Last week, Travolta was photographed after a tennis match with friends with an unquestionably bald head, but then a day later, he made a speedy recovery at a Bombardier Business Aircraft press conference, where he sported thick, black locks. Perhaps the pate debate is why Lewis Kasman, a former associate of the late John Gotti (whom Travolta will soon portray onscreen), said the star was not tough enough to play the Dapper Don. “For John Gotti Sr., you need a man’s man to play that role,” Kasman told The New York Post on Monday. So clearly he just rented Hairspray.
JASON ALEXANDER
Celebrities With Thin Hair. Sixteen years after George Costanza sported a toupee on Seinfeld—and a few months after he was photographed with a bald head—Jason Alexander showed a remarkable hair transformation. Last week, Alexander was spotted with a new, thick hairline, but he had prepared fans for the miracle growth: “I am experimenting with some interesting hair systems,” Alexander tweeted in July. “Don't be shocked if you suddenly see pics of me with more hair than usual.”