Posted on 10/30/2009 9:43:49 PM PDT by pissant
Tennis legend Andre Agassi has admitted he wore a blond mullet wig during the 1990s because he didn't want people to know he was going bald.
The grand slam winner wore a toupee for much of his early career, successfully deceiving the audience into believing the long, flowing locks were his, he writes in a soon-to-be-published autobiography.
Agassi discusses in his upcoming book how distressed he felt to be going bald: "Every morning I would find another piece of my identity on the pillow, in the wash basin, down the plughole."
"I asked myself: you want to wear a toupee? On the tennis court? I answered myself: what else could I do?" he writes.
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I, for one, applaud Andre for coming clean on everything he did and went through in his career. He is opening himself up in a way few ever do.
His confessions also make what he did in the twilight of his career all the more impressive, and it also explains the ‘break’ in his success.
He was able to shake off the ‘bad’ Andre, and reinvent himself, and still play at a top level late in his career.
Rather than being shunned and ridiculed, Agassi should be looked at as an example of what one can do when they face thier demons and clean themselves up.
Brace yourself: he also dabbled in Barbra Streisand land.
I remeber seeing an interview with him after he shaved his head. He explained his baldness to very unselfish means. His mother had just gonet hrough chemo and had lost all her hair. He shaved his head to support her.
What a liar.
It’s funny because a ‘wigmaker to the stars’ once did a radio interview during the height of Agassi’s popularity.
The wigmaker dropped hints like anvils about a certain tennis player who had engaged his services. Of course, the star-obsessed press were loath to derail the marketing train lest one of Agassi’s sponsors pull their ads.
The wigmaker also referenced a ‘rock n roll god’ noted for his tight pants and flowing mane. It didn’t take a leap of logic to deduce it was David Lee Roth then (and now) of Van Halen.
If girls turn out like their mothers then anyone should RUN not walk away from Brooke Shields. Her mum was a control-freak and a garden-variety psycho.
Graf’s considerable achievements aside, she is one of a handful of people in the world who could relate to Agassi on all levels which I’m sure he found very comforting.
Not all stars have to marry other stars but it’s worked for these two.
Must be the “sport” version. I’m buying . . . send yours to me, GD.
I can’t recall seeing anyone with a neck that hairy. Is that part of the toupee?
To this day Steffi Graf is my favorite tennis player of all time.
She put Martina out to pasture, helped push out that slutty Evert and she was just a class act.
One of the best ever.
Are you kidding me ? Sure, she was hot, but she always struck me as vapid and not a good judge of character. Look at her associations with Michael Jackson and how she allowed herself to be his beard.
Stef is a bit of a butterface, but she could probably break any man in two in the sack. Wow !
The makings of the ultimate comb-over...
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