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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Just like Sharon Stone.
LOL! Agassi is turning out to be a real POS in his confession book. He did meth, wore a toupe and probably did steroids.
A mullet wig!!!!! LMAO!!!!! < :'''D
Real men do not worry about going bald, as I learned early in life; only girly men! Besides, real women like guys to look mature and handle their problems.
I’ll bet he felt liberated when he finally ditched the hair piece and went bald.
And I wonder how he managed to keep it from falling off on the tennis court? Staples? Crazy Glue?
Yeah, but evidently he was wearing it backwards...
This is SUCH depressing news!
Forgot how cute he was...he sure fooled me with that wig!
Agassi always struck me as not-too-bright and utterly shallow. Now it appears he also had way serious head problems and drug problems. What on earth was Brooke thinking when she married this guy? She’s exceptionally smart and level-headed. At the time, I figured she must know some good things about Agassi that weren’t apparent to the rest of the world. Turns out he was actually a lot *worse* than he appeared.
Sorry to disappoint, still have a full head of very thick hair (though is changing in color a bit) and learned this throughout my life from all the well put together men, who did not let such things bother them, from the outdoors to being successful in business…but, hey, keep dreaming that a head of hair will make a girly man worth any thing.
Crazy glue! LOL
Personally I appreciate his honesty. Is it humiliating him in many people's eyes? Sure, but he has obviously matured enough to just let people know he went through a lot of very human struggles.
I admire his business sense as well as his charity work now. He has clearly decided his false ego is better left in the back seat and wants to let people know some of this crazy stuff so they see the real him.
I personally admire his candor and his serious gonads on this confessional book. So many others would take it all to the grave and never really go to the next level of shedding the public delusion that still props them up.
He can now own what he did successfully as well as his struggles without any massive lies.
And he’s just now figuring out that he looked stupid back then? LMAO! IDIOT!
While the mullet wig is pretty funny, I don’t think he was ready for that kind of fame at the time. Having said that, he could kick my @ss on the tennis courts with that wig on backwards.
Forget the hair. If I went from being married to Brooke Shields to being married to Steffi Graf I would have titled my memoir “I traded a Ferrari for a Yugo”.
Yep, 100% agree. I appreciate his honest public confession too. He is peeling off the mullet hairpiece of false ego in a big way here, before the public, at center court. Some will gasp but after this he will be a truly free man.
That's one hell of a Yugo!!
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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