Melanie Sykes shares hair loss update after condition leaves her ‘two-thirds bald’

Melanie Sykes has shared an update on her hair loss after admitting how much she had lost last year.

The TV presenter, 55, has been open about the extent of her health battle with alopecia, a condition that sees patients lose hair due to things like stress, genetics, an illness, deficiency and more, per the NHS.

For Sykes, her hair loss came at a time where she began to battle with an autoimmune disease, as she posted a video in December revealing the extent to her followers.

She said at the time: "I've not been on for ages. I'm not well, as you know, I’ve been ill all year, I've got an autoimmune condition, I am losing my hair, I keep having crazy inflammation all over and I am working on healing.

"In the last three months, I've done a meditation teacher training course. I was too ill to finish it, like literally the last two days of it I couldn’t do."

But now, over six months later, she has issued a new update on the condition.

Lying on her back and showing fans each side of her head, the former Today presenter captioned it '#Liberty'.

She previously explained she was suffering from a heart condition which causes palpitations and has inflammation all over her body, leaving her with only a ‘crown’ of hair left.

Putting her hair condition down to ‘Post-Traumatic Growth’, which is the positive psychological change after a traumatic event, per Psychology Today, she said: “Even the most difficult times do pass, they do, and I just want to use this term post traumatic growth, it's real, you can be suffering from PTSD but still at the same time be experiencing post traumatic growth.”

She added: “I'm in both camps because you can be both things at once, as long as I attend to myself and what makes me happy and feel grief about whatever has gone on and process it and move on from it. We can transcend all trauma, we can be changed, and I am living f***ing proof of that!.”

The star often posts images of her art, spirituality, meditation and recently words by Deepak Chopra, the American Author who is credited for bridging the gap between ancient spirituality and Western medicine.

In the comments, her followers have praised her openness with them about her journey, with some passing on words of encouragement as she navigates these struggles.