Is Tom Brady Losing His Hair?
- Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:05am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Take heart, guys. Tom Brady may not be perfect, after all.
With his chiseled good looks, Super Bowl trophies and supermodel wife, the New England Patriots quarterback sure seems to have hit the genetic jackpot. According to one report, though, Brady is facing the same struggle as millions of ordinary Joes.
Hair loss.
The National Enquirer reported that Brady’s car was spotted outside Leonard Hair Transplant Associates in Cranston, R.I., on Nov. 9. That would be the office of Dr. Robert Leonard, described on his website as “New England’s foremost authority on hair restoration.”
“Guys just don’t want to be bald,” said Dr. Raymond Konior of Premiere Hair Restoration in Chicago. “Great heads of hair are perceived as being stronger people, better-looking people.”
Leonard‘s office wouldn’t confirm if Brady was a patient, saying in a statement that, to protect patients’ privacy, “We don’t comment on, confirm, deny or otherwise discuss matters related to our client list.” But if Brady is having hair restoration, Konior said it‘s highly unlikely he’s doing it with five weeks left in the regular season and the playoffs looming.
A call to Brady’s agent, Don Yee, wasn’t immediately returned.
Hair restoration is a surgical procedure and, like any other, requires recovery time. While it varies by procedure and patient, it’s usually at least a week.
Procedures can last anywhere from four to 14 hours, depending on how much hair is being moved, and can cost between $5,000 and $18,000.
“Once it’s healed, that hair acts like it was always there,” Konior said. “It’s like a broken bone. Once it’s healed, it’s healed.”
The Enquirer said Brady’s wife, Gisele Bundchen, was behind the do-over. When Brady was razzed about his shaggy, Justin Bieber-like look earlier this season, he indicated it was his wife’s doing.
But a bad cut is one thing, a surgical cut is another, said Michael Shaun Corby, a celebrity hair stylist and global creative director for Alterna Professional Haircare in Los Angeles.
“A lot of people think only women have a bad hair day, but men can be affected just as much,” Corby said. “Men have the same problems, they just don‘t feel attractive if they don’t have a good hair day.”
Maybe even Tom Brady.
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AP sports writer Jimmy Golen contributed to this report.
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marine43
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 10:03pmThe Hawk, I am with you buddy!!! Come on Glenn W.T.F? I am startin to think he is “gettin above his raisin” TO BIG!
Report Post »Bronco II
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 1:16pmLet‘s see how does this have anything to do with my life or what’s going on in the country ????????
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:16pmI hope he didn‘t go there on Joe Biden’s recommendation.
eeek!
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:50amYou keep covering stories like this I’ll be going somewhere else for my fix! I mean news!
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 11:30amIf true, I feel bad for Brady. You would think with the millions of dollars, the wife, the fame and glory, his athletic ability and looks, that he might have something to place his ego on other than his hair.
Then again, I am a person who is getting hair loss, and promised I would never be one of those people who do the dreaded comb-over, or any other method, other than cutting the hair short.
I may not have the millions. Not have a supermodel wife. Not be as talented, or as good looking. However, I know who I am and the lack of hair isn’t going to change that.
Report Post »free2bme1961
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:57pmGood for you Bill! Everyone has physical flaws they’d like to change, but, the majority “should” know that true character, and what is in the heart of a person, is what counts. :))
Report Post »MozarkDawg
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:50pm>If true, I feel bad for Brady. You would think with the millions of dollars, the wife, the fame and glory, his athletic ability and looks, that he might have something to place his ego on other than his hair.
My immediate thought as well … really Tom?
>However, I know who I am and the lack of hair isn’t going to change that.
Excellent outlook, kudos. It sounds more like a lack of hair could NOT change that. :)
Report Post »bookofwisdom
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:59amHair does NOT make the man. I have known men with lots of hair who were good looking who were also stupid. I have known men with bald spots who were very smart and I have known men who shave their head and some with no hair to shave who I thought were not only smart, but good looking as well. It is what God put in the soul and heart that makes the man. (And I don‘t care how much money he has or doesn’t have.) May God Bless.
Report Post »bburgdaddyo
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:10am“Chisled good looks”? No, Metrosexual, yes.
Report Post »Mick
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:49amWhy is this being reported here on The Blaze?
Report Post »Insipid
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:57amI agree this is more of a tabloid story.
Report Post »VTSickFreak
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:27amWord is that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks is behind this breech of private information. Is no one safe from this guy?!?!?! :-)
Report Post »DonaldH
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 5:50amIs this the Blaze or the National Enquirer —who cares about some over payed-over hyped jock and his hairline
Report Post »free2bme1961
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 5:32amIt’ll only matter to me, when he proposes to me…or unless he intends to help change the chaos of the world with his millions!
Report Post »Cherished Emblems
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:33amThis is news?
Report Post »huntee
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:26amIn other news, Justin Beiber once had a tooth filled !!!!!
Report Post »whitaker
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 1:49amWith everything going on people are worried about a clelberity geting older and facing hair loss???
Report Post »New-American-Saviors
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 1:02amIt’s the Steroids or Tetosterone supplements ( No Kidding) You know what else you lose with those ?
Report Post »No..It’s not that…but the same general area.
clinicalminded
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:59amYou utter everyday how the perfect storm is coming and we are all gonna die, yet you have the same trash on E! or Entertainment weekly. Great story….two words. David Tyree..
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:57amDidn’t Tom and Gisele Bundenhosen proceed to lecture us all about the environment and saving energy while living in a 10,000 square foot house with private elevators, indoor pools, saunas, hot tubs, movie theatres, etc? And doesn’t she fly around the world in private jets while telling us to drive less?
Report Post »Someone should pee on the both of them.
mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:47amAnother pathetic union hack. Who gives a rip?
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:30amIsn’t there stuff out there that Brady can take that grows back his hair.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:29amIn other important news. James Carvel was in Lord of the Rings.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:47amnow that was funny
Restored One
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:13amWho friggin cares! Cmon BLAZE, is this really news that your readers are interested in. DELETE!
Report Post »Free_Thinker
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 1:16amI 2nd that motion!
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 1:37ami 3rd that motion…. damn country is going down the tubes and the blaze is worried about someone going bald….gggggggggggeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzz
Report Post »squeaker
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 1:37ami 3rd that motion…. damn country is going down the tubes and the blaze is worried about someone going bald….gggggggggggeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzz —- here’s a line from an old Glenn Beck show….Michael Jackson is still dead………..!!!
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:11amWho cares. Leave the man alone. God created him and will shape him through his life.
Report Post »angrymob
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:08am“Men have the same problems, they just don‘t feel attractive if they don’t have a good hair day.”
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LOL…really?
angrymob
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:14amI mean a man can shave his head completely and still be sexy…and if it doesn‘t effect his playing where’s the problem? Hmmm…
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 7:15amBald is beautiful. It is also in the genes. But at least you can’t get hair lice!
Report Post »SIXFRIGATES
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:08amKarma for ‘The Fumble’.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 12:49amshut up. GOD created him and will shape him throughout his life. Unless he chooses surgery.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:26amIf you got big money ……who needs hair
Report Post »dpselfe
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 5:44amIt was a forward pass, dude. Just like Bush won in 2000 and 2004, and the governemt was not involved with 9/11. I‘m sorry you’re a Raiders fan(?), but it is what it is. I think Brady should shave his head and accept the inevitable.
Report Post »Shurmus
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 6:35amI’m only a slug, but I am a thinker, and from where I’m standing the biggest stud QB in the NFL is Big Bennie Rathlisboiga…dat dude throws off lanebackazz ald shoits! Go Steelazz…
http://www.slugbuddies.com
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 8:54amDidn’t Jerry Jeff Walker once sing about “They ain‘t getting nowhere and their losin’ their hair,Lord they
Report Post »all must be crazy out there.“ Nighriders lament”
Stuck_in_CA
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 10:42amWho really cares?
Report Post »KStret
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:37pmIt was a forward pass…..
Report Post »KStret
Posted on December 2, 2010 at 2:39pmPS. where is Chucky now?
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