What’s it about ladies whose jobs require them to seem on TV that makes some folks assume that provides them license to touch upon their look? Meteorologist Laura Mock informed the Immediately present that she’s acquired loads of feedback from viewers about her look (which is an issue in and of itself). However Mock, who’s present process most cancers therapies and presently wears a wig, not too long ago had a hateful remark about her hair despatched to her whole group at Fox 23 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the place she works.
The topic line learn “Laura Mock,” and within the physique of the e-mail, the sender wrote, “Can she cease taking part in together with her hair and do the climate. Appears like she has added faux hair.”
That struck a nerve for Mock, so she posted a screenshot of the e-mail to Fb together with this message: “Information flash! It’s faux. I began shedding my hair (thanks chemotherapy!) on the finish of June and have been carrying a wig for a little bit greater than every week. Suppose twice earlier than sending hateful emails to your native information expertise. This one was to our whole newsroom. Does it trouble me? Probably not. I’ve thick pores and skin and produce other issues to fret about, just like the most cancers I’m making an attempt to kick out of my physique. Doesn’t imply I ought to must tolerate feedback like this.”
Alongside the publish, she connected two pictures: one in every of her carrying her wig, and one other of her holding it subsequent to her head.
Mock informed Immediately that she needed this viewer’s terrible remark to be a studying alternative for different folks.
“I’m battling most cancers, and everyone (at work) feels dangerous for me getting that remark,” she stated. “However there are ladies which might be getting these feedback each day that possibly aren’t battling most cancers, however they’re battling different issues of their lives, and we don’t should have this completed.”
Two weeks earlier than she began carrying a wig, Mock shared her analysis with viewers on air. After discovering a lump in her breast in February, she was recognized with stage 3 triple-negative breast most cancers in Could.
“I used to be informed it was rising shortly and that with this kind (of most cancers) chemotherapy is step one and simplest step,” she stated. She instantly began mentally making ready herself for the negative effects, together with shedding her hair. “As quickly because it began falling out, I held on so long as I might, after which realized, ‘ what? It’s not price it,’ and buzzed my head. It felt so releasing.”
Whereas Mock principally receives optimistic feedback on her new look, she had this reminder for viewers (and everybody else): “The folks that you simply see in your native TV are simply that: We’re folks, too. We’re going by our personal struggles daily. If our make-up and hair isn’t completely in place, give us grace. You don’t know what our morning was like, what our week was like.”