LeAnn Rimes has revealed that she struggles with psoriasis and she’s embracing it in a major way, by sharing a photo of herself nude.
In the photo shared on Instagram she wrote, “You know when you say something you’ve been holding in for so long, and it’s such a sigh of relief? That’s what these photos are to me. I needed this.”
She also opened up in a new essay for Glamour, about how psoriasis has affected her life.
“I tried everything I could to treat it: steroid creams, major medications — I even tried being wrapped in coal tar with Saran Wrap,” she recalled. “And when I was in public, I did I everything I could to hide it. Onstage I’d often wear two pairs of pantyhose or jeans — even in 95-degree heat. Underneath my shirt, my whole stomach would be covered in thick scales that would hurt and bleed. For so much of my life, I felt like I had to hide.”
She says that the stress of 2020 caused the condition to flare up. “Suddenly I went from doing what I love, and being surrounded by people, to just hanging around the house in sweats. Stress is a common trigger for psoriasis, and with so much uncertainty happening, my flare-ups came right back.”
Read the full essay here.
