Edouard Philippe talks about his alopecia on February 2, 2023.
HEALTH – “This is what happens to me. » This Thursday, February 2 on BFMTV, the former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe spoke without taboo and even with a smile about his alopecia, an autoimmune disease which he spoke about for the first time in 2022 after the many questions about the bleaching of his beard.
Questioned by journalist Bruce Toussaint, the mayor of Le Havre simply removed his round glasses and touched his hairless eyebrow arches. “I lost my eyebrows and I don’t think they will come back. My beard has turned white and it’s falling out a bit. My hair is falling too. The mustache is gone, I don’t know if it will come back, I would be surprised. I have what is called alopecia”he developed.
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“It is useful to say that alopecia can start very young or very old. It’s a loss of hair.”he explained. “It’s not painful, it’s not dangerous, it’s not contagious, it’s not serious. I suffer from it at 52, at my age losing your hair is not serious. I’m lucky “he believes, citing the case of a 15-year-old girl for whom daily life and self-acceptance would be much more complicated.
Édouard Philippe “ambitious” for the country
Édouard Philippe claims not to know what is the cause of this disease. « [Les médecins] told me it could be stress. Maybe, do I have a stressful life? Yes I confirm it! (…) But it could have happened if I had not been Prime Minister”he points out.
If he evokes alopecia without fear, the one who is also president of the Horizons party recognizes that he would have preferred that “it is not a subject”. “I think the French can be curious about what is happening, questioning. I talk about it in full transparency but I’m not going to spend my time talking about it either. Once again it’s a hair story, it doesn’t matter! », he adds.
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The city councilor who plays his part for 2027 has also evacuated rumors about a potentially more serious illness that he would like to hide, like Georges Pompidou in his time. “You will always find people who are a little miserable and say that behind that there must be something a little more serious: that’s life”he resigns himself, before playing down the drama again: “There are people who experience much more difficult things in France. Well, my eyebrows have fallen out. »
And to reassure on the fact that his condition absolutely does not prevent him from thinking big and being “extremely ambitious for my city and for my country”its keyword. “I think our country needs ambition. France doubts itself, our fellow citizens doubt our collective ability to rise to the challenges. This gives a pessimistic country while France is formidable. I think it’s much more serious than my body hair. »
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