As Denver7 anchor Anne Trujillo prepares to log off from practically 4 many years on our airwaves, we’re trying again at seminal moments from her profession.
A kind of moments got here in 2012, when Anne went public with a really personal battle.
“I used to be getting some actually tough emails at the moment saying, ‘What occurred to you? You do not look good, what is going on on with you?’” she recalled.
Anne was shedding her hair. She recalled in an interview with The Denver Submit discovering hair “all over the place” at dwelling. She had no hair on her arms and the hair in her eyebrows was thinning.
After a number of rounds of testing, she was recognized with Alopecia Areata, an autoimmune pores and skin illness that causes hair loss. About 2% of the world’s inhabitants expertise Alopecia, in accordance with the Nationwide Alopecia Areata Basis.
“I bear in mind for a very long time actually trying inside saying, ‘I’ve essentially the most public job on the planet. And the way is it that I’m now coping with this?’” stated Trujillo, a one-time winner of Westword’s “Finest Hair” award in Denver information.
“I giggle about that now and suppose, ‘Yeah, I used to have some fairly fabulous hair.”
Anne’s bosses at Denver7 gave her the chance to take day off within the wake of the analysis. As an alternative, she had her sights set on masking the upcoming presidential debate in Denver.
“Doing a dwell TV stand-up outdoors the College of Denver’s Magness Enviornment on that windy debate night time, Trujillo was glad to have headphones holding her hair extensions in place,” learn a Denver Submit article from Oct. 14, 2012.
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The analysis shone a light-weight on a double-standard that usually rears its ugly head in broadcast tv. Nevertheless it additionally provided Anne some perspective.
“I go searching tv in Denver — in fact, I discover everybody’s hair now,” she advised the Submit again in 2012. “I see loads of males who’ve had some hair loss. Individuals do not suppose twice about that. They do in terms of ladies.”
“We, ladies, choose ourselves harshly. It is a message to ladies: Let’s be extra supportive of each other.”
Greater than a decade later, that perspective remains to be entrance and heart as she displays on her profession.
“I feel it has additionally helped me be taught extra about compassion and respect for others,” she stated, a couple of weeks earlier than her ultimate sign-off. “I feel if something, I will be an instance for others after I say I am simply going to persevere and preserve going.”