“When I don’t wear a cap in the water, that is me saying ‘Hey, I’m bald, and I love it,’ and this is who I am and even though I have alopecia, this is what I’m capable of doing,” Hayes said. “It doesn’t stop me. I want to show people that even if you have an autoimmune disease, a disability, anything, that you are capable of achieving your goals, that nothing is standing in your way.”
