On growing back his hair, Édouard Philippe has a humorous answer

POLITICS – In politics, every detail counts. Dress, tone of voice, presence… Nothing is left to chance with these very exposed personalities, attached to the image they project. Édouard Philippe knows this too well. Since he announced he was suffering from vitiligo and alopecia, the former Prime Minister has been scrutinized and his hair constantly analyzed. It must be said that these two illnesses change one's physical appearance in a phenomenal way. Between his time at Matignon and today, he notably lost his eyebrows.

But in recent weeks, hair has appeared on his scalp again. In an interview given this Sunday, January 19 to Parisianthe current mayor of Le Havre cannot escape the question of whether this “plays positively” on his « moral ». “I can say, because I have experienced it, that losing all your hair is anything but neutralhe confides. It changes your appearance, your face, the way you look at yourself and how others see you. It’s not nothing”.

“The return of the panda!” »

The founder of the Horizons party seems to take this hair growth with humor. He even relates a funny anecdote. In June, he explains, “it started to grow back, without treatment or surgery”. « It made me really funny”he reveals. Like a feeling of living again, at 54 years old, “puberty”. “It turns out that the hair that grows back is black. My daughter said to me: “It’s the return of the panda!” And that made him laugh.”. “I somehow came back from among the bald”he still quips.

For three years, the appearance of the former Prime Minister has continued to evolve. And to arouse mockery, compassion or incomprehension. In February 2023, to silence the rumor, he decided to speak publicly. “Here's what's happening: I lost my eyebrows, and I don't think they'll come back again. My beard has turned white, it's falling out a little, and so has my hair. The mustache is gone, I don’t know if it will come back, but it would surprise me”he then explains.

He rejoices, like this January 19, at the fact that alopecia is not “neither dangerous, nor contagious, nor painful”but only « visible ». And since then, during each political interview, amid questions about his ambitions for 2027 or his view of Emmanuel Macron's action, Édouard Philippe is asked about his hair.

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