Two hair transplantation surgeries and more than 20 hours in the chair changed John Cena’s daily routine, he said at San Diego Comic-Con. The WWE and Peacemaker star described the procedures as the best way to address the hair loss he had been trying to hide.
John Cena’s 13.5-hour first surgery
13 and a half hours marked Cena’s first operation, which he said took place in November 2024. About 15 months later, he returned for a second procedure that lasted eight hours, bringing the total to more than 20 hours. He said the goal was simple: get more hair without giving up the shaved look he had already adopted.
49 is Cena’s age, and he tied the decision to pressure from WWE fans who had drawn attention to his thinning hair. He said his doctor was Ken Anderson, who runs the Anderson Center for Hair in Georgia, and credited the treatment with changing how he feels about the issue. The process included red-light therapy, minoxidil, vitamins, and the transplants themselves.
Ken Anderson and the Anderson Center
“The objective is to get more hair, and this was the best way to do it, talking with Ken Anderson, my doctor over there,” Cena said, adding, “I love the guy. He's totally changed my life.” He also recounted asking for a touch-up after the first surgery: “Man, you did great. I have this one small, small, small spot. Can you do it?”
“I can. My best results are – if you're bold enough to shave your head, I can keep the follicles,” he recalled Anderson saying. Cena said he now views the procedures positively, but admitted he wished he had acted earlier: “I hate the fact that if there wasn't so much shame around it, I'd have gotten it done 10 years ago.”
San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, July 25
Saturday, July 25 gave Cena the public stage to spell out what many men already know privately. He said seven or eight out of 10 men deal with thinning or baldness, and that his own experience became easier to address once he stopped treating it as a secret.
As I was trying to hide my hair loss, the audience was bringing it to light, he said, turning a personal cosmetic choice into a public example of how long treatment can take and how much follow-through it can require. The open question is not whether the surgeries happened; it is how much hair coverage the two procedures ultimately restored, which Cena did not specify.
