Looking back over the past 25 years, Wigs for Kids founder Jeffrey Paul cannot believe his incredible journey.
He was a successful hairdresser with a thriving business. He traveled all over the world to work with powerful presidents and gorgeous models. But one day, his 15-year-old niece walked into his salon, crying. She tearfully begged him to stop her hair from falling out. His immediate thoughts were that it was not serious.
But when he saw the look in her father's eyes, he knew it was something more. It turned out that she had just been diagnosed with leukemia. "Uncle Jeff, you know I've been trying to get on the gymnastics team all my life," she cried. "My hair is going to be falling out when it's time to try out."
Although chemotherapy would help save her life, it would also leave her with no hair. "I promised her that she would have hair," Paul says. "And when you make a promise to a kid, you keep it."
