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Olivia Apps

Olivia Apps

Canadian rugby player

Aug 12, 2026

8:21
We did.
8:22
Okay, sorry.
8:24
Anyways, so...
8:25
Yeah, so anyways, I didn't really have as much of an aspiration to, okay, yeah, I want to...
8:31
I want to be a professional athlete.
8:33
But then as I started playing rugby, which wasn't until I was a grade 10.
8:37
So I was like 15 when I started playing rugby.
12:11
And I was just curious, like, how do you look at your career as a female athlete has it changed all over the last couple of years as people have started to focus more on women's sports as people started to focus more on like just understanding women's health better and women's bodies like does that come into play at all when you think about your career or do you feel like things haven't changed enough I guess how have you felt this moment in women's sports or do you feel like we're there's still a lot more to do
47:35
How long did it take from when you started losing your hair until it was pretty much all gone? Because a lot of people don't know how alopecia works.
47:42
Yeah, it was pretty quick.
47:43
It was like three weeks-ish, like just under a month, where my hair was thinning in the shower and on my hairbrush there was a lot of hair coming out.
47:52
And then one morning I just woke up and my pillow was covered in hair.
47:57
And my hair was like very, very, very thin.
48:00
And then yeah, so it was like probably around three weeks.
48:04
And then I started this new school, just like really unfortunate timing.
52:59
I can imagine you've had a lot of stories like that.
16:56
Like, I wouldn't understand it at seven.
16:58
Yeah, it's like, it's kind of a weird age because you're not, like, a teenager yet.
17:04
Like, you don't really know, like, everything about your appearance and, like... caring about what people think of you or like how you look I feel more grateful that I lost my hair when I was seven versus like 20 yeah like my whole life has been basically without hair and like that is who I am but it was like also challenging because I was such a young girl and Like, just, like, kept going.
17:28
You know what I mean? It wasn't like I could, like, go hide out in the cabin and, like, move out to a completely different place.
17:33
Like, I had to...
17:34
Well, I actually switched schools right at the time that I lost my hair.
17:37
So I, like, started at a new school without any hair.

21 MINS LATER

38:58
Have you seen a change since that World Cup? in the canadian um rugby space

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