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Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Live with Shame or Confront It? (with Ricki Lake)

Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

When Ricki Lake hosted her eponymous talk show in the 1990s, she wore hairpieces and extensions to hide the fact that her hair was thinning. After decades of privately feeling shame about her hair, Ricki learned she had androgenetic alopecia, a common form of hair loss in both men and women. Sam asks Ricki about her decision to go public with her alopecia diagnosis, how she landed the gig hosting her talk show when she was only 23 years old, and the 35th anniversary of her star-making role as Tracy Turnblad in “Hairspray.”

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Hi there, from where I sit.

0:59.4

My 53, going on 54 perch, it's pretty easy to say that I think overall, we've made

1:05.6

a lot of progress in accepting different body tapes, we've become more body-positive,

1:10.4

we've sort of shifted our beauty standards.

1:14.5

I mean, models no longer need to be the width of a pinky, which helps the rest of us

1:19.8

non-pinky with people feel more confident, too.

1:23.5

I mean, you know, a lot of them are still the width of a pinky, but whatever.

1:27.2

And still, it's estimated that over 70% of women in the U.S. dye their hair, myself,

1:34.9

for sure, included in that, and of course, not everyone who dies their hair does so to

1:39.0

cover up the gray that sprouts in as we dare to age, but a lot do, because it can be scary

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