Ketki Jani
In our society, people consider a bald woman a joke, a cruel one. Only a few percents of bald people choose to have their heads shaven off. While the rest struggle to accept the fact and spend time, money and efforts to prevent it from happening but there could be some exceptions. Ketaki Jani is one among them.
So, Ketaki Jani is an alopecia patient who lost her hair and was the first alopecia patient to make it to the Mrs. India International beauty pageant and win a title.
Ketaki Jani, an Ahmedabad-born and Pune based government employee and a mother of two. She lost her hair at the age of forty in a matter of one and a half months; going from a lady next door to the lady people would make fun of because of her bald head.
She was leading a normal life like other family women. But then one day, she woke up and finds a huge bald spot on her head, with her hair falling out on the pillow. She got Shocked and panicked. She visited the doctor only to learn that the condition that she was suffering from is untreatable. In no time she realized that nothing can be done now. Alopecia removes every single strand of hair from my entire body.
Even after losing my hairs, the treatment has to start. Series of consultations, medicines, and steroids were given each day for two and a half years. Ketaki was affected by Alopecia. It led her into depression which was very natural, but coming out of it was a choice that she made. After that, she accepted the truth and embrace her baldness. Before she walked into society with dignity, despite all the painful questions. It was crucial for her to accept that “Yes, I am bald but have a beautiful heart”, which is beyond looks!. Acceptance wasn’t easy at all, she cried the whole day and was afraid to move out and even never looked at the mirror ever again.
It was her daughter who told Ketaki that she is beautiful as she was. And it didn’t matter what the society thinks. It was then, that she decided to accept what had happened and move on in life. She stopped taking steroids which would have had side-effects on her kidneys in the long run. She decided to shed her scarf and step out of her home with her beautiful face and shiny bald head.
It wasn’t easy at first, as people coming up and asking if I had cancer or some other deadly disease. Some even tell how her life had lost its meaning and there was nothing left in the world for a bald woman. Further, she was so much cursed for the wrong deeds. She was asked is she a widow! she could see non-acceptance in the society. Often, strangers used.
She then promised to herself that she will accept her fate. Ketaki decided to went for a tattoo on her head, fulfilling her long-pending desire to have a tattoo.
The tattoo helped her to get back her confidence that she'd lost. It made her condition look more like a fashion statement. It was then she saw the Facebook page for the Mrs. India pageant, and immediately applied for it. The rest they say is history.
She was complemented by the show’s judges. From whom she learned that going bald out of choice was a fashion in Paris. And other European countries and that she had an equal chance as any other participant, hair or no hair.
After five years, she is the first participant with Alopecia to have made it to the finals of the Mrs. India Worldwide finale and winning the title of Mrs. Inspirational, which people say is well-deserved.
Ketaki Jani felt that she was the right person to win the title of ‘Mrs. Inspiration’.When the pageant winner placed her crown on Ketaki's head, she felt proud of her bravery and acknowledged her inner beauty and courage.
What she can tell out of her personal experience is that it doesn’t matter if you fit in the social standards of beauty or not, since all that matters, in the end, is whether or not you believe in yourself, and your inner beauty.
If you love yourself, you won’t ever be bothered about whether or not society loves you, and that is how you conquer the world.
So, Ketaki Jani is an alopecia patient who lost her hair and was the first alopecia patient to make it to the Mrs. India International beauty pageant and win a title.
Ketaki Jani, an Ahmedabad-born and Pune based government employee and a mother of two. She lost her hair at the age of forty in a matter of one and a half months; going from a lady next door to the lady people would make fun of because of her bald head.
Ketaki Jani-Dark Days
She was leading a normal life like other family women. But then one day, she woke up and finds a huge bald spot on her head, with her hair falling out on the pillow. She got Shocked and panicked. She visited the doctor only to learn that the condition that she was suffering from is untreatable. In no time she realized that nothing can be done now. Alopecia removes every single strand of hair from my entire body.
Even after losing my hairs, the treatment has to start. Series of consultations, medicines, and steroids were given each day for two and a half years. Ketaki was affected by Alopecia. It led her into depression which was very natural, but coming out of it was a choice that she made. After that, she accepted the truth and embrace her baldness. Before she walked into society with dignity, despite all the painful questions. It was crucial for her to accept that “Yes, I am bald but have a beautiful heart”, which is beyond looks!. Acceptance wasn’t easy at all, she cried the whole day and was afraid to move out and even never looked at the mirror ever again.
It was her daughter who told Ketaki that she is beautiful as she was. And it didn’t matter what the society thinks. It was then, that she decided to accept what had happened and move on in life. She stopped taking steroids which would have had side-effects on her kidneys in the long run. She decided to shed her scarf and step out of her home with her beautiful face and shiny bald head.
It wasn’t easy at first, as people coming up and asking if I had cancer or some other deadly disease. Some even tell how her life had lost its meaning and there was nothing left in the world for a bald woman. Further, she was so much cursed for the wrong deeds. She was asked is she a widow! she could see non-acceptance in the society. Often, strangers used.
Ketaki Jani-Fight Back
She then promised to herself that she will accept her fate. Ketaki decided to went for a tattoo on her head, fulfilling her long-pending desire to have a tattoo.
The tattoo helped her to get back her confidence that she'd lost. It made her condition look more like a fashion statement. It was then she saw the Facebook page for the Mrs. India pageant, and immediately applied for it. The rest they say is history.
Ketaki Jani-Turning Point
She was complemented by the show’s judges. From whom she learned that going bald out of choice was a fashion in Paris. And other European countries and that she had an equal chance as any other participant, hair or no hair.
After five years, she is the first participant with Alopecia to have made it to the finals of the Mrs. India Worldwide finale and winning the title of Mrs. Inspirational, which people say is well-deserved.
Ketaki Jani felt that she was the right person to win the title of ‘Mrs. Inspiration’.When the pageant winner placed her crown on Ketaki's head, she felt proud of her bravery and acknowledged her inner beauty and courage.
Ketaki Jani-The Inspiration
What she can tell out of her personal experience is that it doesn’t matter if you fit in the social standards of beauty or not, since all that matters, in the end, is whether or not you believe in yourself, and your inner beauty.
If you love yourself, you won’t ever be bothered about whether or not society loves you, and that is how you conquer the world.
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