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Wendy Williams talks her Thyroid Disease and how it's the primary reason she wears wigs.
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00:00You've always rocked the most amazing wigs. I am now rocking my most beautiful wig. I think the
00:13fact that you have always spoken so openly and you tell us why I think you went to wigs. I know
00:20people think it's a vanity thing. Yeah no but I know it's not. Yeah I am I have thyroid disease
00:24and thyroid disease there are a few symptoms or a few byproducts of having thyroid disease that
00:32a lot of people aren't aware of. Sometimes you get that goiter which is that giant Adam's apple
00:38which I think is the most obvious thing that people see but what people don't understand is
00:43that thyroid disease is also related to Graves disease which is what the elder Mrs. Bush remember
00:49Barbara Bush back in the day that's the muscles behind your eyes. This doesn't happen to everybody
00:53but I happen to have Graves disease so I have to make a concerted effort in conversation
00:57so I'm not trying to give you the screw face. I just don't want to give you the scary stare.
01:02Oh yes. So the pressure the muscle pressure behind the eyes kind of pushes them forward just a bit
01:08and there's nothing that you can do about it. You know I've already gone to ask you know what can
01:13this be done. My tear ducts have untucked and so I've got a little frog-like bump under each.
01:20Yeah it's pressure. Well we can't see that but you also have thinning hair.
01:22But the other part is is that you can you can get thinning hair. Not everybody with thyroid disease
01:28has thinning hair. For me my thyroid is high. Oh it's been regular for so long.
01:33I know it's so confusing. The one where you lose the weight. Right. You lose the hair. So you went to
01:39wigs and isn't it life-changing? Well I'm not bald. Right. I didn't lose the hair. Okay it's thinning.
01:44But mine thins after kids by the way. So I've always had. You should see what's underneath this.
01:49Oh. It is unbelievable. It's coming in thicker. No it's crazy. I call it crazy hair. No it's so good.
01:55I think wigs are life-changing for a woman. No wait. Life-changing. But wait. I'm not going back.
02:00Was your hair thinned? No I lost hair with chemo. No I'm saying while you were pregnant? Sorry.
02:05After I had kids my hair got thin. I had big curly long hair and it got thin so then I wore extensions
02:11in the back and then I had the best part about cancer for me besides the point that I'm healthy
02:19is that I discovered wigs. So I to me I have no hair drama ever. No humidity. I wake up I put my
02:28wigs on. It looks beautiful. I have short. I have long. She has great hair now underneath her. I was
02:32going to ask you so how long are you going to let your natural hair go? I'm like you girl. I'm going
02:36for wigs forever. Yeah but mine will never thicken up. Oh it's lush. I want to grab it and put my hands
02:43through it. It's like I mean it is unbelievable. After the show she'll take it off. Like wigs are fun and wigs are
02:49cute. They are fun. Do you have names for them? You have so many of them. How do you know which one?
02:52Ron Brown. New girl. You know I have names for them so when I talk to Robin on the phone or
02:59text her and ask her like oh we're going to HSN this weekend you know for another presentation
03:04so bring you know new bitch. Yeah there's one called that. She's new. What's this one?
03:11God. I don't have a name. This is Rita Ora's older sister because she made she made me a shorter
03:18one. So this is the older one and this one's only like three days old and I love it. I love it.
03:23I want that one. I think I could wear that one. And lush. Yeah it's really good. She's very talented.
03:29But I could never I would never rock my real hair other than at my house. Me either.
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