I was reading a news article talking about how Christopher Reeve is now able to breathe without a ventilator, and the article was accompanied by the following picture:
Did he undergo chemotherapy or something? Or has he always been bald and just stopped wearing a toupee?
There’s just something wrong about Superman looking like Lex Luthor… 
Barry
On a TV special about him a while back, he said that he was taking a medication that had hair loss as a side effect. At that time, he would wear a hairpiece for public appearances – but perhaps not anymore.
Red kryptonite!
The New Yorker did a piece on him recently. The relevant excerpt:
“The most striking change in his appearance has nothing to do with his accident. Reeve has alopecia areata, a condition that causes patchy hair loss, and in February he had his head shaved.”
Well, if Patrick Stewart decides to opt out of the next X-Men movie. . . .
In the recent interview with Barbara Walters, he said it had to do with his SCI, which puzzled the hell outta me, as I work with patients with SCI and have never heard of this. Alopecia areata makes a lot more sense. It looked to me like his eyebrows were gone, too–they looked penciled in.
I’ve been wondering for months now why he has no eyebrows!
