‘Love This Team’ — Actor Selma Blair Reflects on the Importance of Family as She Deals with Her Health

“One May need to find a quiet and meditative moment at the crazy, loud and pretty flipping awesomeness that is @monsterjam. Meet me there. Loved hanging with people I love. Old and new. Thank you,” Blair wrote in the caption of her first snap from the event.

 

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One May need to find a quiet and meditative moment at the crazy, loud and pretty flipping awesomeness that is @monsterjam . Meet me there. Loved hanging with people I love. Old and new. Thank you. Also, @kidarthursaint really digs his new friend Taylor and @christinaanstead ????. And he met @stephensharer who was super kind.

A post shared by Selma Blair (@selmablair) on Feb 23, 2020 at 8:00pm PST

The actress, famous for her roles in “Legally Blonde” and “Cruel Intentions,” followed up that social media post with a photo of her with her son, boyfriend Ron Carlson, a producer, and his daughter, noting, “Families that @monsterjam together, stay together. Love this team.”

 

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Families that @monsterjam together, stay together. Love this team. #monsterlove #noiwasntkidnapped #mynewride

A post shared by Selma Blair (@selmablair) on Feb 23, 2020 at 9:14pm PST

Blair, 47, has been candid with fans and supporters during her health journey. Many of the struggles she went through after undergoing chemotherapy are similar to those felt by women in the SurvivorNet community, who are dealing with physical and emotional side effects of cancer treatment.

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Selma Blair’s MS and Chemo Journey

The actress went public with her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in October 2018, explaining that she had suffered for years with unexplained symptoms, such as falling, dropping things and foggy memory. She revealed that she would be undergoing chemotherapy for the disease in August of 2019.

Since then, she has shared multiple updates about the side effects from treatment, from suffering from vision loss to dealing with the emotional aspects of losing her hair.

In a November post, the actress shared that her hair was growing back, but it was “thinnish,” “patchy,” and “charcoal” colored. It’s common for hair to grow back with a different texture or color after chemo-induced hair loss. For many survivors, this can be really challenging. But Blair shared that after initially trying to dye her newly-sprouting locks, she decided to simply embrace the gray.

 

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For those few interested at an in depth look at hair growth ,post chemotherapy for #hsct. I cut my hair short to transition myself and my son for impending baldness. Easy. Baldness came. I didn't shave head to that end. Of course it fell out. Shiny. Pale dome. Nice enough. It took two months to begin regrowth And it came in fine and pale and very sparse. I shaved it. It looked too sad. For me. I let it grow back. It was patchy in color and I felt like dying it brown. Ridiculous! I really only succeeded in dying my scalp. After a week, I buzzed shorter with clippers and a few weeks later, here we are ????. A thinnish, patchy charcoal head. I will see how a pixie grows in. Or I will buzz again. It seems to be too much to have long hair again. So I will leave it short and grey, something I have never before wanted to do. I equated it with giving up. And maybe giving up long, brown hair, complete with time consuming and expensive highlights and lowlights isn't necessarily a give up. Give in. Embrace. Sure. I'll try it. Unless…some fancy pants company with a thick checkbook wants to entice me out of dye retirement. Then I will sing about the glories of processed hair! I certainly will. So, until that wished for day, enjoy the head ???? #buzzed #saltandpepperhair #showingmyroots #thecomeback

A post shared by Selma Blair (@selmablair) on Nov 4, 2019 at 1:09pm PST

 

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