Actor and comedian Joel McHale revealed that he has had four hair transplants to get his hair back.
"Yeah, I'm fully bald ... This is four transplants. I did it way back when it was a strip," McHale explained, referring to the hair transplant method that involves removing a strip of scalp. "Painful. Don't do a strip." "Do plucking," he emphasized, noting how the procedure has evolved in recent years. "Now they pluck it from the whole back section, and it's a miracle."
McHale then noted that in spite of the viral online trend of heading to Turkey for a hair transplant, he received the procedure in Los Angeles. "I can get you a name of a guy in Turkey," he jokingly quipped, before adding, "But just make sure, because if somebody is like, 'I'll do it for $3,000,' then you don't. You get what you pay for."
The Animal Control star went on to share that he spent $10,000 on the procedures, but noted, "it might have gone up." Here's what he told the podcast host who is also considering the procedure.
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