Katie Hopkins: I’m obnoxious – but felt vulnerable after cutting off my hair

Katie Hopkins has opened up about feeling vulnerable after cutting off her hair following surgery to cure her epilepsy.

The controversial columnist said despite her “obnoxious and bullish” personality she felt as though she had lost her “first line of defence”.

Speaking at the Cannes Lions festival, she told Mail Online: “The funny thing was that when I started off this whole brain surgery lark I said, ‘I won't care about my hair, it doesn't matter, I don't need hair because I'm obnoxious and bullish. I am more than my hair, I don't even care about my face'.”

She continued: “But I've learned that I do care and maybe it's vanity and I accept that but maybe it's just a first line of defence so I get that now.

"And maybe I understand a lot more about women who have lost their hair for whatever reason, chemo or whatever.

“That's a really big moment, to come out with no hair. I didn't feel emotional but I did feel really exposed and I wore a bobble hat for the whole winter.”

Hopkins underwent brain surgery in March in a bid to treat the epilepsy which has “plagued” her life.

Following the procedure the LBC presenter tweeted pictures of a long scar across her head and revealed that she had asked her husband to shave her head.

“Husband about to cut my hair off as dreads not proving to be my thing,” she tweeted. “I don't think hairdressing is his thing either.”

Hopkins' operation was a success and she announced to her 600,000 Twitter followers that she is "no longer an epileptic".

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