A woman desperate to have the same hairline as her identical twin sister has spent £5,500 on two hair transplants. Rebecca Chadwick, 29, went ahead with the major procedures to help boost her confidence after comparing her receding hairline to her sister's.
She first noticed the difference when she was 18, as she began to notice the subtle differences between her and her identical twin sister. After lots of research, she underwent her first hair transplant in January 2016 to 'round off' her hairline. She followed this with another procedure in March 2022 to give her a properly formed widow's peak.
The consultant is now speaking out to educate people and 'change the narrative"'on the cosmetic procedure and to normalise it for women, after it changed her life.
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Rebecca, a consultant from Derby, said: "There was something about my face I was struggling with. I have an identical twin sister and her line is so symmetrical, but mine looked like it hadn't formed properly.
"I started to hyper-fixate on my looks and it was all I could see when I looked in the mirror. When I went into my twenties I started to focus more on my looks to improve my confidence.
"I came across a random post on Instagram from someone who'd had a hair transplant. I'd researched Turkey as an option but their method was more outdated and invasive.
"From the research I did, I found that UK clinics made it look more natural. It was a lot to research as they're much more common for men. I would like one more hair transplant because you can't get the fullness. I'm not trying to look like my sister, but she's the reflection of me.
"Over the years it has amounted to quite
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