Celebrity Gail Porter is perhaps one of the most famous victims of hair loss in recent times. In an interview with The Guardian, Porter reveals what the experience of losing her hair was like, and how she has come to terms with it.

Porter lost her hair literally overnight, three years ago. She simply woke up one day and all of her body hair - head, underarms, legs, and pubic hair - was lying on the bed in clumps.

There were no warning signs, except for a couple of small bald patches, which Porter had put down to normal hair loss after pregnancy.

"There's no rhyme nor reason to it" said Porter. "It's an auto-immune condition where the body's defence system goes wrong and turns on itself. They say it can be stress hormones, all sorts of things, but if it was just stress then half the people in London would be bald. I don't put it down to being ill, being depressed or anything - I just think it's the luck of the draw - I pulled the short straw."

On lighter note, Porter claims she has become very popular with babies. "[They] look at me and suddenly stop crying. It's like they're thinking, 'Ahaaa, you're one of us! But why are you so big?'"