Matthew McConaughey says he considered getting hair plugs in the '90s to keep aging at bay
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- Matthew McConaughey appeared on Dax Shepard's podcast, Armchair Expert, and spoke about aging.
- He said that in the '90s, he considered using hair plugs when he started losing his hair.
- Instead, he opted for a topical treatment that he still uses today.
Matthew McConaughey admitted to struggling with physical changes brought on by the aging process in an episode of Armchair Expert, a podcast hosted by Dax Shepard.
"It seems to me this aging thing, right, it's like, how do you do it gracefully, but how do you deny it?" McConaughey said in the episode, which aired April 10. "And there are awkward ways to deny it — we've all seen it," he continued.
The actor, 53, also discussed his experience reckoning with hair loss in the 1990s.
"I had a silver-dollar bald on top," he said, referring to a bald spot on his head in 1999.
At first, he tried to accept it.
"I went like, 'Go gracefully — be all face," he said. "But I remember going, 'Wait, I'm not ready to go quietly into the night on this. You know, I considered hair plugs," he added.
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But he ended up opting for an alternative treatment.
"So I found this topical treatment ... and son of a b----, I have a better hairline now than I did in '99," he said.
"I still use it daily," he told Shepard.
The Academy Award-winning actor has spoken about his hair loss previously, including in his 2020 memoir, "Greenlights." In 2022, he told LADBible that he rubbed an ointment on his scalp once a day for 10 minutes.
"I was fully committed to it. [...] It was just manual labor," he said.
He has also shared his experience with a natural hair-loss treatment called Regenix.
"I started rubbing my head with this stuff called Regenix, and damn if it didn't come back," he said in a 2017 appearance on "Live with Kelly."