Man undergoes hair transplant surgery after being trolled for baldness
A man has revealed the extreme lengths he went to in order to hide an “ugly” feature, declaring “without a hat, I look awful”.
A tall, muscular man has said he’s constantly reminded of how “ugly” he looks to would-be fan girls online.
“Without a hat, I look awful,” said Steven, a 34-year-old influencer from the United Kingdom known to his 3.9 million TikTok followers as @Lord_Dermott, in his trending video about seeking a hair transplant.
“I’m a hat-fish,” he added, as reported by The Sun, implying that, like a “catfish” – someone who falsifies their identity or appearance on the internet with the intent of defrauding romantic suitors – he feels compelled to wear hats in order to bolster his image.
In his slightly self-deprecating clip, which scored more than 1.9 million views, the father-of-three scolded a lady commenter who deemed his hatless appearance “not so gorgeous”.
During the virtual rebuke, Steven explained that he’d gone to extreme lengths to mask his unattractive head, including undergoing surgery in May 2022 in an effort to reconfigure his receding hairline.
“Nearly a year ago, I flew out to Turkey to get a hair transplant to fix these issues that narrow-minded people are picking on,” he said, before removing a baseball cap to reveal his forehead.
“I know I’m ugly,” he added, in direct response to his hater’s criticisms. “I agree with you. The difference between me and you is, I’m a nice person. I have a good personality.”
The fed-up man then challenged his detractor to reveal her true self online for public scrutiny.
“Take your makeup off,” Steven urged, “make a little video … let’s see what you look like with your ugly-ass personality and a face with no makeup.”
And an impressed audience applauded Steven for striking back at his attacker.
“You could be hairless and beautiful. She is blind as a bat,” gushed a commentator.
“IDK what she is lookin’ at but I see a handsome man!” insisted a separate admirer.
“Tell the haters! You look gooooddd,” another said.
Men, too, chimed in, praising Steven’s hat-free hotness.
“I’m a man and you are a great looking man, I’m not afraid to tell anyone that they look great,” one wrote.
“Sir you took off your hat and I was gay all of the sudden, don’t sell yourself short,” another wrote.
In a previous post, Steven, who livestreamed his hair transplant procedure, blasted critics for teasing him about being gifted the procedure by company Now Hair Time.
“I have wanted this done for years and years and years,” he said. “I was even going to go down the route of having a strip of hair glued to my head just to see what it looked like.”
He went on to explain his motivation for publicising the surgery and his results, saying: “I wanted to make other men who feel vulnerable about their hairline – know that it’s okay to get it done. I did it for the benefit of everybody else.
“When you realise that it’s okay for other people to be happy or do better than you, you will become a better person.”
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission