Further speaking on her anxiety, Kelly added: "I started losing my hair. I was like, ‘No, this isn’t acceptable’. It carried on and I remember saying to Scott, ‘I feel like I’ve got a bald patch in my hair’. I noticed then on the other side another bald patch and it was then that I thought I had alopecia. I went to the doctor at England and just said, ‘My hair’s falling out but it’s itching as well on my head’. He sent me to some specialists and she was amazing and told me I had alopecia. I was like, now I’m seeing the physical effects it (anxiety) is having on my body, not only mental.
"That was a tough time because you care about your appearance a lot and you want to feel confident. I remember my first game at Arsenal covering my bald patches. I had panic attacks and thought I was having a heart attack at times. When my hair was coming out, I remember questioning whether I can go fully bald. She was like, ‘it takes three months’. So for the next three months, it was like waiting and seeing. Now, I look at my hair and it’s grown back. I had my hair in a pony in the recent camp and my hair was growing outwards. Incredible things have happened since I made that step."