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Lynette Scavo, played by the esteemed actress Felicity Huffman, is one of the leading ladies in the award-winning Desperate Housewives.

Aged 45, Scavo is a harried housewife at the beginning of the series. She’s forced to deal with a husband who is seldom home – thanks to his job – and has to cope with playing mother to three boys with ADHD and a daughter. She doesn’t know how to act the role at first, and contemplates suicide (much like her now-dead friend, Mary Alice Young, whose death is the primary mystery of the first season).

Over the next few seasons she experiences any number of-family related troubles, particularly with husband Tom who she thinks is cheating on her. Possibly from the stress of dealing with her husband, children and deciding whether or not she should go back to her career, Lynette Scavo is diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

By the fourth season Scavo is discovered by her fellow housewives to be bald because of chemotherapy treatments.