Dispatches
- October 6, 2026 · Dispatch
'I Want You to Know It's Not Real': Nancy Mace Pulls Off Her Wig Topper on Camera and Says PTSD Has Cost Her About Half Her Hair
On the morning of October 4, 2026, Nancy Mace posted a three-minute video to her own YouTube channel titled 'Nancy Mace Reveals Her SECRET to Good Hair.' Seated in her Get Maced studio, she says the hair people have been complimenting is 'not real,' says she has lost 'about half my hair' and attributes that to PTSD, lists the peptides, vitamins, topicals, Rogaine and methylene blue she says she uses, and then, at about 1:38, unclips a human-hair 'wig topper' on camera, holds it up, and parts her remaining hair with both hands to show her scalp. She finishes the video without the topper on. Every quote below is verbatim from her video. Maceopedia takes no position on her health; this entry records what she said and showed, and sets it beside her earlier public posts about her hair.
- July 30, 2026 · Dispatch
'Advice, tips, hacks?': Mace's 'week 4' carnivore post is the newest chapter in two years of public posts about her weight, her hair, and PTSD
On July 30, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace, a sitting member of Congress and announced candidate for South Carolina governor, asked her X followers for 'advice, tips, hacks' on the carnivore diet, 'heading into week 4.' The post drew more than 200 replies, many asking why a member of Congress was crowdsourcing meal-plan tips. It was not the first time. Since November 2024, Mace has posted repeatedly and publicly about her body: a roughly 30-pound weight loss she attributes to PTSD, a 110-pound frame, 'about half my hair' lost to what she called PTSD-driven stress, and a viral post about eating beans after an election loss. This dispatch collects those public posts, in her own words, with screenshots of each.