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  • La La Anthony Opens Up About Her Psoriasis, Credits Kim Kardashian

    La La Anthony is joining a slew of other actresses, singers, and otherwise famous folks in revealing something that might be considered a bit embarrassing about herself. La La Anthony is going public about the fact that she has psoriasis.

    La La Anthony is partnering with the National Psoriasis Foundation for their Picture Positivity campaign. The writer, actress and wife of NBA player Carmelo Anthony says of her decision to reveal her condition to the public, “I’m all about trying to help others out there and giving the best advice based on my experiences — so if I can continue to do that, I’m really happy.”

    La La Anthony has written two books, The Power Playbook and its predecessor The Love Playbook. But this is the first time she has gone into such detail about her struggle with psoriasis.

    “About 10 years ago is when I first noticed it, and I didn’t know what it was,” La La says. “I had it really bad in my scalp and behind my ears, but my scalp is where I suffer from it the worst.”

    “I’ve had this for a long time and I’ve still been able to go on and I’ve still been able to do all these amazing things, and I’ve never let psoriasis get in the way of any of that,” Anthony says. “You don’t have to be ashamed, you don’t have to hide in the closet because of it, you can still live life and do amazing things, which is what the Picture Positivity campaign is all about.”

    Anthony now has a role as a series regular on A&E’s Unforgettable. She tells how her look for that role has to consider the effects of her psoriasis.

    “I have my hair slicked all the way back for the TV show I’m shooting; while it’s part of my character, it’s also because my scalp has a bit of a flare-up now, so just by slicking it back it covers everything up,” she reveals.

    Such techniques to cover the flare-ups have become part of how La La and other people deal with the condition.

    “I started to use my clothing, whether it’s hats or long sleeves or pants — or when it breaks out on my scalp I’ll do my hair a certain way, like pulled back in a ponytail,” she says.

    La La Anthony joins Cyndi Lauper and Kim Kardashian in coming out about her condition. She credits Kim Kardashian, particularly, with helping her get over her feelings of shame about her psoriasis.

    “The thing I’ve taken from [Kim] is not to be afraid of it, not to be ashamed of it,” she says. “It’s something that we have; it doesn’t make us any less human, or weird or freaky. It’s about being open with what we have and being open with other people who are suffering from the same thing. If I was to take anything from her it would be that: to not be ashamed of it.”

  • Cyndi Lauper Opens Up About Her Embarrassing Disease To Help Others

    Cyndi Lauper Opens Up About Her Embarrassing Disease To Help Others

    Cyndi Lauper is stepping into the spotlight with some embarrassing details about her personal life and health. Lauper hopes that her own story will help other people who may be suffering with the same disease she has kept secret for most of her career.

    Cyndi Lauper has psoriasis. At its worst, she said she could hardly perform or go out in public.

    Her skin flaked off so badly during her onstage shows that she started wearing a mesh body suit under her clothes. “When I took it off, it was like ‘Ugh,’” she says. “The people I was working with would look at me and say, ‘That looks like it hurts.’”

    “It was so bad, I felt like the Elephant Man,” says Lauper.

    The whole thing seemed fairly simple when it started, Lauper recalls.

    “First, I thought I just had a really bad bleach job,” Lauper says. “I am a suicide blonde after all.”

    So she got a special shampoo from a dermatologist. But her troubles did not end there.

    “My whole entire body was covered in a rash and scaly skin. And then it just stared creeping up my neck. I felt swallowed by it. My immune system got a little wacky, and it took my strength away,” says Lauper. “My skin was so inflamed, it could not regulate hot and cold, so I had the chills all the time.”

    Cyndi Lauper used her flamboyant public image to help hide her condition.

    “I dyed my hair red, put extensions in and then I just wore a wig so I wouldn’t have to mess with my scalp too much,” Lauper said. “It really started to hurt.”

    But things got so bad that eventually she had to nearly cover herself entirely.

    “I just kept wearing higher-necked clothes, turtlenecks and long sleeves,” she says. “I looked like a nun. It’s not an attractive look. I like to wear tight clothes so what am I gonna do, wear a potato sack? No. I lost it. I stopped singing for a while. I felt depressed and I felt horrible.”

    Lauper’s message to other psoriasis sufferers is simple:

    “You don’t have to suffer in silence or live in pain,” says Lauper. “It’s not just a rash. It’s a disease.”

    “I’m not alone. There are 7.5 million Americans with this. Find a doctor who specializes in psoriasis and find a treatment. Find what works for you. You gotta keep going because if not, you’ll end up on your butt like I was.”

    “I don’t want anyone to be a silent psoriasis sufferer,” she says. “You can’t just lay in the dark and get depressed and feel like the disease has won. You can win, just get the information and get help – because suffering in silence really sucks.”

  • Cyndi Lauper Reveals Her Secret Disease That She Keeps Covered Up

    Cyndi Lauper has come forward with an admission about something that almost wrecked her career. The Kinky Boots producer has joined a campaign to help sufferers of psoriasis, and is revealing some pretty personal details about her own battle with the disease in the process.

    “First, I thought I just had a really bad bleach job,” Lauper says. “I am a suicide blonde after all.”

    So she got a special shampoo from a dermatologist. But her troubles did not end there.

    “My whole entire body was covered in a rash and scaly skin. And then it just stared creeping up my neck. I felt swallowed by it. My immune system got a little wacky, and it took my strength away,” says Lauper. “My skin was so inflamed, it could not regulate hot and cold, so I had the chills all the time.”

    Since Cyndi Lauper had a public image for dressing flamboyantly and wild, she used that to her advantage.

    “I dyed my hair red, put extensions in and then I just wore a wig so I wouldn’t have to mess with my scalp too much,” Lauper said. “It really started to hurt.”

    As the disease spread to other parts of her body, she had to cover up more.

    “I just kept wearing higher-necked clothes, turtlenecks and long sleeves,” she says. “I looked like a nun. It’s not an attractive look. I like to wear tight clothes so what am I gonna do, wear a potato sack? No.”

    Her skin flaked off so badly during her onstage shows that she started wearing a mesh body suit under her clothes. “When I took it off, it was like ‘Ugh,’” she says. “The people I was working with would look at me and say, ‘That looks like it hurts.’”

    “It was so bad, I felt like the Elephant Man,” says Lauper

    Now Cyndi Lauper hopes her story helps others who are ashamed of how their skin condition may be perceived in public.

    “You don’t have to suffer in silence or live in pain,” says Lauper. “It’s not just a rash. It’s a disease.”

    Her dermatologist diagnosed her with psoriasis and gave her a special shampoo.

    But that was just the beginning. Two years later, the rash flared up and “kicked into something scary,” she says.

    “I tried every kind of natural cure I could,” says Lauper, who at times was so weak she couldn’t leave her bed. “It was like I Love Lucy. I felt like a mad scientist mixing this and that.”

    To this day, Cyndi Lauper still doesn’t know what kicked the whole thing off, but she knows that certain foods and other factors make it worse. And she knows it almost derailed her career entirely.

    “Everybody says it’s stress but I’ve always had stress,” said Lauper. “My whole job is stress.”

    Once her voice started to be affected, Lauper felt she was at a new low.

    “I lost it. I stopped singing for a while. I felt depressed and I felt horrible.”

    “I’m not alone,” says Lauper. “There are 7.5 million Americans with this. Find a doctor who specializes in psoriasis and find a treatment. Find what works for you. You gotta keep going because if not, you’ll end up on your butt like I was.”

    “I don’t want anyone to be a silent psoriasis sufferer,” she says. “You can’t just lay in the dark and get depressed and feel like the disease has won. You can win, just get the information and get help – because suffering in silence really sucks.”

  • Kim Kardashian Poses Nude After Revealing Psoriasis

    Kim Kardashian revealed on a recent episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians that she suffers from psoriasis.

    “I have psoriasis, there is nothing I can do about it so there is no reason why I should feel uncomfortable,” Kim Kardashian said.

    WebMD describes psoriasis and its symptoms this way:

    “Psoriasis is a long-term (chronic) skin problem that causes skin cells to grow too quickly, resulting in thick, white, silvery, or red patches of skin… In psoriasis, new skin cells move rapidly to the surface of the skin in days rather than weeks. They build up and form thick patches called plaques. The patches range in size from small to large. They most often appear on the knees, elbows, scalp, hands, feet, or lower back.”

    While many people with psoriasis feel very uncomfortable revealing their skin issue in public, such as at a pool or other setting where it may be more apparent, Kim Kardashian has a bolder approach.

    “So to make myself feel better I lay out all my insecurities before we start a shoot in the hope that no one will be focused on that. I just want to do fun and artsy things. I want to capture really cool moments and have some great shoots and be nude and do all this cool stuff.”

    Kim Kardashian doesn’t let her psoriasis get in the way of taking off as much clothing as she wants. WebMD notes that “psoriasis isn’t contagious. It can’t be spread by touch from person to person.” So when doing photo shoots, Kim Kardashian can have her psoriasis covered with makeup, or removed by Photoshop airbrushing techniques after the shoot.

    Supermodel Cara Delevingne has also revealed that she suffers from psoriasis.