John Edward's wife said he offered to shave head

...according to the San Jose Mercury News:

When Elizabeth Edwards shaved her head because of hair loss from breast cancer treatment, her husband -- former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards -- offered to do the same....

So did their young son, Jack, Edwards writes in ``Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength From Friends and Strangers,'' scheduled for publication in September by Broadway Books.

``I convinced them it wouldn't help me to see more bald people in my family,'' she wrote.

Her husband, a former U.S. senator, was at her side throughout months of treatment in early 2005, she said. She has stayed mostly out of the public eye since Edwards and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the presidential candidate, lost to the Bush-Cheney ticket in 2004.

Elizabeth Edwards was campaigning in Wisconsin 12 days before Election Day when she discovered a large lump. A week later, she was able to visit her doctor in Raleigh, and she told her husband she probably had breast cancer.