TikTok star Matt Howard is opening up about his choice to obtain a hair transplant abroad..
“I went to Turkey for a hair transplant,” Howard stated in a video shared through social media on Saturday, September 14. “However I really feel like I would like to start out from the start.”
Within the clip, Howard defined that he tried to “rock a buzz reduce” final 12 months and realized that his hair was “thinning.”
“I used to be tremendous embarrassed and began carrying hats to cover my insecurity,” he shared. “Male sample baldness runs in my household so it was solely a matter of time til I might go bald too. I began taking finasteride and minoxidil however I didn’t see the outcomes I hoped for.”
Howard famous that he started doing analysis, the place he found that hair transplants in america can value “upwards of $20,000.” At Estenove Clinic in Turkey, nevertheless, “you’re round $3,500 — which incorporates all transportation and a 3 to 4 evening keep at a 5 star lodge.”
On the clinic, Howard defined {that a} new hairline was drawn on his head and he “began to get a bit nervous proper earlier than native anaesthesia as a result of I used to be going to be awake for six hours whereas they implanted 2,800 grafts.”
Matt famous that he would share his ultimate outcomes together with his followers later, whereas spouse Abby Howard wrote within the feedback part, “I might love you bald or bushy🫶🏼.”
Matt and Abby, who’ve amassed greater than 5 million followers on TikTok, rose to on-line stardom by documenting their every day lives for social media. The content material creators share sons Griffin, 3, and August, 2, and revealed in August that they’re anticipating their third little one.
Because the pair balances parenthood and being influencers, Matt and Abby shared that they not too long ago made the choice to cease exhibiting their youngsters’s faces on-line.
“Initially, we did have our firstborn’s face on-line as a result of we had been like, ‘We’re going to proceed doing all the things we’ve been doing. We’ve been vlogging our life, we’ve a child now [and] we’re nonetheless vlogging our life,’” Matt stated on a July episode of the “Two Dad and mom & A” podcast. “Then, we had been considering, ‘OK, there’s digital footprints right here,’ and all this stuff that we’re nonetheless studying.”
Abby famous that the choice stemmed from an “abundance of safety,” whereas Matt added, “It’s loopy as a result of we’re actually within the wild west. Somebody’s going to [f***] up there. There have already got been dad and mom [who] have effed up on-line, and, like, harm their children. So, we’re studying, like, ‘Don’t do this, Good.’ We don’t wish to be a type of those that by accident [post our children]. We wish the very best for our children.”