Moriah Plath is opening up about her battle with alopecia.
The Welcome to Plathville star took to Instagram on Monday, July 7, and posted two photos; in one, she wears a hat, and in the other, a scarf tied around her head.
“I’m hesitant to share this cause it’s a vulnerable and sensitive thing for me,” Plath, 22, wrote in a caption. “Many people have been criticizing the way I look, it’s nothing new to me and I’ve grown used to being picked apart since I was young for my style choices, hair choices and makeup choices… many of which were reasonable cause even I look back and am like goodness Moriah you look a bit crazy haha! But that’s life and the best part is having fun and not beating your younger self up.”
She said she’s “struggled with alopecia just about my whole life” and “for the most part it’s been manageable.”
TLC/YouTube Moriah Plath let her walls down on the latest episode of Welcome to Plathville, revealing how her recent breakup physically affected her. “I left Tampa the last day of September and I was grieving, lost in heartbreak, and my hair started falling out,” Moriah, 22, shared during the Tuesday, September 10, episode of the […]
However, she revealed, “a few months ago I lost all my hair, eyebrows and eyelashes again. It was extremely hard and emotional and I had to come to terms with it. I cried an awful lot and then told myself oh well, it is what it is. I’ll do what I can and make the most of it.”
Plath continued, “I’m not very talented yet at wearing wigs and trying to draw my dang eyebrows on every day can be frustrating lol. I’m still trying to master that haha! So if I look a bit odd or different now that would most likely be why 🙈I’m learning to laugh where I can and cry when I need to and just accepting it.”
She’s been “stuck with the same black wig cause I wasn’t prepared for all the questions but it is what it is now.”
Plath said that she’s “never had any cosmetic work done, besides Invisalign. I’m learning to love myself the way God made me, with or without hair.”
So far, “it’s a continuous struggle,” she admitted, “but I’m getting there!”
She concluded her post on a positive note, musing “that our imperfections and insecurities are actually some parts of us that are most beautiful!”
As for critiques of her appearance, Plath reminded her followers that “you never know what [someone is] going through and try to speak life and positivity cause they probably are harder on themselves then you are [on them]!”
She previously addressed her condition on the sixth season of the TLC reality show featuring her Christian Fundamentalist family. After a recent breakup, Plath’s hair started falling out.
Welcome to Plathville introduced viewers to Barry and Kim Plath and their nine children when the reality show premiered on TLC in November 2019. According to the series description, the couple’s kids — Ethan, Hosanna, Micah, Moriah, Lydia, Isaac, Amber, Cassia and Mercy — “have never had a soda, don’t know who Spider-Man or Tom […]
“I would brush my hair and it was just, like, [gone],” she said in a September 2024 episode where she tearfully told her mom, Kim Plath, that she wanted to shave off her remaining hair.
She later explained that when she was 3 or 4, she lost all her hair. “It started falling out and it didn’t come back till I was 8,” she recalled. “These last several months, I have noticed, for myself at least, heartbreak triggers my alopecia. I think that it’s an outward reflection of what’s going on inside.”