If you’re living with vitiligo, an autoimmune condition that causes skin to lose its pigment, you might have complex feelings about how it can affect your appearance. You’re not alone in that: ...
Before founding Living Dappled, Erika Page felt alone with her vitiligo and tried to “fight” it. Making a place for others to be seen has helped her embrace it When Erika Page was seven, she began ...
Social media has become a powerful place where people can celebrate what makes them different, and one Instagram page is doing exactly that for people with vitiligo. The account @vitiligo.beauty on ...
Like many other chronic health conditions, vitiligo is often misunderstood—and due to the visible symptoms it causes, it’s undeniably stigmatized. Vitiligo is a chronic autoimmune condition that ...
From Michael Jackson to Jon Hamm, here's what celebrities have said about living with this genetic autoimmune condition, which causes patches of depigmented skin.
I’ve been a vitiligo researcher for almost 20 years. While it affects people of all races and ethnicities equally, it’s more visible in people with darker skin tones. As a result, they may be more ...
Now, more than 25 years into her journey, Lisa reflects on how she’s managed the challenges of living with vitiligo, what it was like to find a treatment that worked for her, and her role as an ...