When Matthew McConaughey released his memoir Greenlights in 2020, fans and media were straight away attracted to some shocking details about his troubled childhood. For example, his parents were married to each other three times. When asked about his dating with them, he described it as "the Pacific Ocean in a storm." But to nowadays, probably the most talked-about revelation in his book is his rumored hair transplant after balding a while in the past. Here's the reality concerning the actor's "mysterious" hair regrowth.
During an look on Live! with Kelly in 2017, McConaughey admitted that he started balding in 1999. "Actually, I was losing my hair in '99. Yes, I was." he mentioned. "Some of this hair was falling out. Now my hairline's better than when I was 18." It's why he made up our minds to shave all his hair off again then. "You can go back and look at things like The Wedding Planner and those things; I mean, you'll see, I was losing," he told LADbible in February 2022. "I got a picture, turn of the millennium party in 2000 in Jamaica, I was looking down laughing and there was a baseball-sized bald spot on the top of my head."
The Dallas Buyer's Club star added that his curls are all-natural however rising up, it wasn't. Confused? Here's his explanation: "Oh yeah, high school I had a perm [in the back of my head], right after the rat tail, right before the bleach blond," he recalled on Live! with Kelly. "As I remember it, I did have straight hair and then I got a perm at 15 and it's been curly ever since. I even passed it down to my kids too." Imagine him with out that beautiful mane... Interestingly, in 2016, McConaughey transformed into a balding gold prospector in the film Gold. They shaved his head and made him put on a facet toupee.
"Everybody, the producers were worried. One of them particularly came and saw me before we were about to shave Matthew's head and said, 'You know, I'm really worried about this. I'm really worried how it's going to look or what's going to happen,'" hair and make-up artist Felicity Bowring told Deadline. "I said, 'Look, the worst case scenario is that you don't like it and we've shaved Matthew's head, you push your production by one week, and one week only, and we get Alex Rouse to make a full wig that looks like Matthew McConaughey.' I said, 'That's easy. That's easy.'" Well, all of it labored out just high-quality.
The hair transplant rumors came from a doctor in Sweden who claimed credit for McConaughey's hair regrowth. "I run into this guy in Beverly Hills and he goes, 'I've been wanting to meet you because I go to this conference every year and over the last 10 years we always put you on the screen as an example of a great hair transplant. For the last six years nobody ever raised their hand to say it was them and the last three years there's this doctor from Sweden that takes credit for it,'" the actor recalled. "And I go, 'Ah, he's full of BS' and he goes, 'Can I look at your scalp? And he looks at it and he goes, You don't have hair transplants, I'm going to bust this man at next year's convention.'"
The secret to his head filled with hair? Regenix oil remedy. "I started rubbing my head with this stuff called Regenix, and damn if it didn't come back." he said. Recently, he additionally revealed that he nonetheless applies it religiously like when he began. "I get this topical ointment and I rub it into my scalp, once a day for 10 minutes," he informed LADbible. "I was fully committed, I was fully committed to it - no Propecia, no nothing, it was just manual labor. The same thing I was rubbing it down with I still do today. I'm not gonna quit to see if like, 'Oh, do I need to do it anymore?'. I'm not taking that chance."
Though the Interstellar famous person has been a Regenix customer since 1999, he simplest gave the company a shoutout in 2001 at the Late Show. The corporate's CEO Bill Edwards not too long ago instructed TMZ that the "McConaughey effect" made them in style far and wide the world. As a result, they created a new mail-order program for global shoppers the place they send hair samples in and Regenix supplies them a custom hair regrowth plan.
But in 2020, the corporate used to be pressured to near its clinic in L.A. Fortunately, their mail-order program saved them from totally shutting down. Edwards mentioned that it is all McConaughey's doing. As a token of appreciation, the CEO stated that he is giving the actor and his buddies free lifetime remedy from Regenix.
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