Melanie Sykes stepped out wearing a head scarf during a dog walk on Monday, in her first sighting since revealing she had lost ‘two-thirds’ of her hair to alopecia.The TV personality, 55, looked low-key and stylish as she enjoyed a Joe & The Juice while rocking a patterned scarf with a white tee and casual trousers. She looked laid-back as she doted on her Pembroke Welsh Corgi while wearing a tote bag reading: ‘You can take the girl out of Mossley but you can’t take Mossley’, in a nod to her roots in the town of Mossley in Tameside, Greater Manchester.Earlier this year, the star revealed she is ‘learning to live with loss’ after her ongoing battle with alopecia having first spoken out about her diagnosis in April 2025. Melanie, who also suffers from a heart condition which causes palpitations, said she is ‘counting her blessings’ and explained that while the hair she has around her crown is all she has left, it is healthy. Melanie Sykes stepped out wearing a head scarf during a dog walk on Monday, in her first sighting since revealing she had lost ‘two-thirds’ of her hair to alopecia The TV personality, 55, looked low-key and stylish as she enjoyed a Joe & The Juice while rocking a patterned scarf with a white tee and casual trousers She looked laid-back as she doted on her Pembroke Welsh Corgi Melanie has shown off her completely bald head days after revealing she had lost ‘two-thirds’ of her hairIn a recent post, Melanie wrote: ‘Hey strumps, My crown is pretty much what’s left of my hair now and how healthy it is.’I do get cold however, hence my beanie and various headwear but I’m learning to live with ‘loss’ and counting my blessings instead.’It’s not always easy to be grateful, but it is the key to happiness and takes daily, moment-to-moment practice. Practice love.’Melanie shared a positive health update to end 2025 and revealed she was suffering from ‘Post-Traumatic Growth’.She took to Instagram and told fans how she was ‘vibrating high’ after ‘transcending trauma’ amid her battle with the autoimmune condition that’s left her ‘two-thirds bald’ and with excessive inflammation all over her body.Post-Traumatic Growth is the positive psychological change that some individuals experience after a life crisis or traumatic event. Earlier this year, the star revealed she is ‘learning to live with loss’ after her ongoing battle with alopecia having first spoken out about her diagnosis in April 2025 In a nod to her roots in the town of Mossley in Tameside, Greater Manchester She kept things comfortable in flip-flops as she stepped out in styleShe said: ‘Even the most difficult times do pass, they do, and I just want to use this term post traumatic growth, it’s real, you can be suffering from PTSD but still at the same time be experiencing post traumatic growth.”I’m in both camps because you can be both things at once, as long as I attend to myself and what makes me happy and feel grief about whatever has gone on and process it and move on from it’.Before adding: ‘We can transcend all trauma, we can be changed, and I am living f******g proof of that!’.She captioned the post: ‘Hello you beautiful people, sharing my high vibes today, Love always, Melanie x’.The star, who was the face of the Boddingtons Bitter beer advert in the mid 90s, first gave an insight into her hair loss in April 2025 and showed her side profile, where she pointed out a bald spot on her head.She said the photo was taken whilst she was in London, investigating some health issues.’I am experiencing alopecia and heart issues due to all that has happened over the last few months. PTSD, shock, mistreatment and malpractice,’ the former TV star revealed. Melanie, who also suffers from a heart condition which causes palpitations, said she is ‘counting her blessings’ and explained that while the hair she has around her crown is all she has left, it is healthy The star, who was the face of the Boddingtons Bitter beer advert in the mid 90s, first gave an insight into her hair loss in April 2025 and showed her side profile, where she pointed out a bald spot on her headLast year, Melanie urged fans not to ‘worry about her’ amid her health woes and insisted that she has ‘learnt to take of herself’ and is ‘healing’.She said: ‘Life is so good, and I know it because I’m right here right now and there’s nothing to fear. There is nothing to fear.’The more I tune into faith, and believing that all is well because it is, because I’m experiencing it, so I know that it is, that it’ll only get better.’Melanie said she would rather not speak about her illness all the time and added: ‘We don’t need to bring that to the conversation.’She continued: ‘It’s not like I’m hiding it, I’d just rather have a conversation about something else because I’ve got that down and I’m healing myself.’Worry about yourselves, if anything, and I don’t even mean worry about yourselves, I just mean attend to your own spiritual garden, yourself, your body, your mind, your creative spirit.’Don’t worry about me, I’ve got me, I’ve always got me, I’ve learned to really take care of myself in the last two years.’Melanie revealed in a clip that she is also living with excessive inflammation all over her body.