Coast radio host Toni Street has spoken out openly in the past about living with a rare auto-immune condition, and she’s now revealed how it left her with drastic hair damage and loss.
Opening up on her podcast We Need To Talk, Street tells listeners that a combination of drugs she was on to medicate her Churg-Strauss syndrome “literally sizzled” her hair during her 30s.
“I had a thick, glossy mane, which I used to straighten within an inch of its life, tie it up when it was wet. And by damn, I didn’t know what I had until it was gone,” she recalls.
![Street says she was left with a "weird fringe" due to her medication.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/5IXM2B3UV5HSHA3MNR5FDSCEXU.jpeg?auth=894ec6f3debd5e2c0abb641f05d6aa54769ed75638978bed8383e0b103777713&width=16&height=22&quality=70&smart=true)
“It fell out in clumps, changed its colour, and it was like a coarse piece of straw. It was so bad, I had to cut it all off in a bob, which I’d never had in my life, and I wore hairpieces to thicken it out when I was hosting Seven Sharp on TVNZ ... I [felt] like I wasn’t going to get my hair back.”