Peggy Knight's Story

Peggy Knight's personal experience with hair loss serves as the basis for her goals and actions today.

As a teenager, Knight developed alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss and has no known cause or cure. By age 21, she had lost all of her hair. She was then working in a high-profile professional position, and she struggled to maintain her self-esteem in the face of society's expectations. At the time, there was little understanding of — and little compassion for — those with alopecia areata and other medical causes of hair loss. The marketplace offered little solace; acceptable wig products were almost impossible to locate.

In an effort to help herself and others, Knight founded an image institute in 1978. This institute, located in San Francisco, focused on helping women regain their self-esteem and return to a normal, active lifestyle after changes in their physical appearance due to alopecia areata, other hair loss diseases, burns, or cancer treatments. The institute also nurtured the development of the high-quality hairpieces now available through Peggy Knight Solutions.

Today, as founder and chairman of Peggy Knight Solutions, Knight oversees the research and development of a full product line of wigs and hairpieces created specifically for adults and children with medical hair loss.

"I am committed to creating hair prostheses that enable everyone experiencing hair loss to lead a normal life — to walk in the wind or play sports without worry," says Knight.