The Famous Men Who’ve Gone Public With Their Hair Transplants

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters Although two-thirds of American men will experience significant hair loss before hitting their 40s, hair transplant surgeries are still somewhat considered taboo.

The secrecy around the procedure has led many online observers to judge for themselves, creating “before-and-after” pictures of A-listers including basketball legend LeBron James, chef Gordon Ramsay, and soccer star David Beckham.

Still, some celebrities don’t leave it up to the audience to suspect: they share their journey themselves, in their own words.

These are the celebrity men who have been refreshingly loud and proud about their hair rejuvenation journeys.

AJ McLean, 48 In 2013, Backstreet Boys member AJ McLean shocked fans by posting before-and-after photos of his hair transplant transformation on Instagram.

The boy bander underwent the surgery just before his wedding to Rochelle DeAnna Karidis in 2011.

He told Allure in 2021 he was preparing for his second procedure.

“Losing my hair is something that I have personally struggled with for a long time,” he said, adding that for years he shaved his head to cover the thinning.

McLean said he was not ashamed of his choice or talking about it.

“I totally accept whatever anybody wants to do to make themselves feel better, to boost their self-confidence,” he said.

Joe Buck, 57 Eight-time Emmy-winning sportscaster Joe Buck underwent his first plug hair transplant surgery in 1993, and never looked back.

The old-school procedure involved removing a circular area of skin and hair from one part of his head, and planting it in a thinning area.

The technique carried the risk of patchy results and has since been replaced by newer methods.

In his 2016 memoir, Lucky b-----d: My Life, My Dad, And The Things I’m Not Allowed To Say On TV , Buck called himself a “hair-plug addict,” who kept going back for more and more procedures.