Why it’s *so* important that this model just showed that vitiligo is beautiful, too
Why it’s *so* important that this model just showed that vitiligo is beautiful, too
Say hello to Breanne Rice, your new beauty icon. A model and Holistic Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Rice recently got MEGA real about her struggle with recognizing her own beauty as a result of her vitiligo, a skin condition that “causes the loss of skin color in blotches,” according to Mayo Clinic.
Her post is beyond vital, and serves as proof that we all deserve to feel loved, and to feel beautiful.
A photo posted by BreanneRice (@breannerice)
on Mar 9, 2016 at 12:44pm PST
“At 19, I was diagnosed with vitiligo, and it spread rapidly causing me to lose over half of the pigment on my face,” Rice wrote in her moving Instagram post. “Yeah. Not the bottom of my foot or my arm..but ONLY on my face. I got really good at doing my makeup, and I didn’t want anyone to know about it.”
Vitiligo really hurt her self confidence. “I couldn’t look in the mirror without crying, and feeling unattractive,” Rice said. “It’s taken me a very long time to be able to go public with this, and to walk around publicly without any makeup. Why? Because it’s my face. Although I would like to say I am super confident and it never gets to me, sometimes it does.”
A photo posted by BreanneRice (@breannerice)
on Apr 13, 2016 at 12:01pm PDT
At the end of the day, Rice wrote, she’s really been encouraged by her vitiligo to challenge her own understanding of beauty. It’s changed the way she sees the world. “You know what though, I own it. There’s not much I can do about it. I can only love myself, and not let my circumstances define my value or self-worth. What is the definition of beautiful anyway? Is it being perfect? What do you see when you look in the mirror?”
“Perhaps you have a circumstance or something about yourself that you are insecure about,” Rice wrote. “Don’t let it define you. You deserve love, and you are beautiful.”
A photo posted by BreanneRice (@breannerice)
on Jul 16, 2016 at 12:11pm PDT
Rice continues to be open about her vitiligo and her refusal to let it keep her from loving herself, because she is beautiful, with makeup or without. She is proof that beauty is so much more than how we look.
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