Jenna Fischer opened up about treating her “aggressive” breast cancer during an Oct. 21 interview on Today, revealing how she dealt with losing her hair. Fisher, 50, first revealed last week that she had been diagnosed with cancer in 2023.
"When they told me I had to have chemo, the first thing I thought was, 'I don’t want to throw up, and I don’t want to lose my hair,'" The Office star told Hoda Kotb. "I did not throw up, but I did lose my hair."
Fischer continued: "And it's all us ladies talk about. How much Googling did I do of hair and pictures of hair and, 'What will it look like?' It’s funny. The way that I lost it, it doesn’t come out evenly," she explained. “It comes out in fits and starts. And so I started by having just like a big, bald patch down this side of my head. And I would kind of do, like, a real elaborate comb-over."
Fisher went through 12 rounds of chemo beginning in February, followed by three weeks of radiation in June. Since the summer, she’s been treated with infusions of two additional medications.
"I never had a big shave-your-head moment," Fischer reflected. "I don’t know why. I thought, 'Oh, should I cut it first? Should I shave it? What do I do?' And I didn’t.”
"I always had a little hair right here," she told Kotb. "I always had a little hair in the back. And since I was trying to stay undercover, those little bits of flyaways, they sort of helped with the illusion of hair. I kind of [looked] like Friar Tuck, nothing on top and then just a little something over here.”
For a time, Fischer disguised her hair loss with a combination of wigs and hats. However, she set that habit aside when her family began referring to them as “wigats.” Fischer says she’s now ready to “ditch the wigs” and embrace her shorter, more easily manageable hairstyle.
Fischer announced her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment on Oct. 8 for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The actress reported that she was “feeling great” after treatment but added, “If I had waited six months longer, things could have been much worse. It could have spread.”
You can check out Fischer’s Today interview below.
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