Celebrities with Rosacea

[Ghost]

State Senator Nicole Le Favour of Idaho...not really a celebrity, but I love when politicians have it--verybinspiring as they have to appear in public all the time...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/us...m-outside.html

I know a couple of people who have it and it doesn't seem to bother them at all. One is a research doc, so this person is far too into traditional meds to glance at alternatives. So the disease is just accepted as "an incurable part of me". Another person is quite rich and just floats through life: travels, has romances; no probs.

Here's the question. Please answer with no if/then qualifications:

Would you rather be rich (as per above) but have rosacea, OR be yourself just as you are but have perfect skin?

I'll go first: I'll take the perfect skin.

G

[twoface]

Ian Somerhalder from the TV Series "the vampire diaries" has kind of red cheeks i am not sure if it is rosacea, but anyway many girls love him

google pics

[dryfairskin]

Ian Somerhalder from the TV Series "the vampire diaries" has kind of red cheeks i am not sure if it is rosacea, but anyway many girls love him

google pics

from those google pics cant see any redness apart from one or two photos, if thats rosacea then 99 percent of people have it. may in the tv series he had redder cheeks alot of actors faces are made redder for the part. also the opposite can happpen,in ireland the ex prime minister bertie ahern used to spend i think about at least 10,000 euro on makeup a year for tv appearances. dont think he had rosacea but apparentely has alot of spider veins.

[twoface]

i think he is wearing a bit of makeup every time as most celebrities do.

you can notice he is a little red in this vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZu8yEn2Zkk

[vicki]

Perfect skin all the way. Being rich would be awfully nice though.

[vicki]

Katherine Boo, author of a book about the Mumbai slums. I am including a link to an article about the book, "Behind The Beautiful Forevers," because it looks interesting. She doesn't look like she has rosacea in the picture that accompanies the article, but when I saw her on The Colbert Report she was really red.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/bo...pagewanted=all

Anyway, if you google images of her, in some it looks like she has type 1 rosacea, in others she just looks a bit pink. Actually, that would correlate with the flare-and-subside cycle we all know and hate.

Ghost, I also know two people who have it who don't think about it all that much. Not much of a support system, those people, lol. I probably would think less about mine if I didn't have so much pain and sensitivity. I had great skin for most of my life, and I completely took it for granted (I obsessed about weight, hair, etc.). Now I'd give anything to have the good skin back. Of all my (multiple) medical problems, the skin problems have caused the biggest decrease in my quality of life.

I so dread the summer. It's nice to be here and say that, knowing people will understand, rather than say "come on, summer's fun." Not if you have rosacea it isn't.

[Ghost]

Katherine Boo, author of a book about the Mumbai slums. I am including a link to an article about the book, "Behind The Beautiful Forevers," because it looks interesting. She doesn't look like she has rosacea in the picture that accompanies the article, but when I saw her on The Colbert Report she was really red.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/bo...pagewanted=all

Anyway, if you google images of her, in some it looks like she has type 1 rosacea, in others she just looks a bit pink. Actually, that would correlate with the flare-and-subside cycle we all know and hate.

Ghost, I also know two people who have it who don't think about it all that much. Not much of a support system, those people, lol. I probably would think less about mine if I didn't have so much pain and sensitivity. I had great skin for most of my life, and I completely took it for granted (I obsessed about weight, hair, etc.). Now I'd give anything to have the good skin back. Of all my (multiple) medical problems, the skin problems have caused the biggest decrease in my quality of life.

I so dread the summer. It's nice to be here and say that, knowing people will understand, rather than say "come on, summer's fun." Not if you have rosacea it isn't.

I hear ya, Vicki. I grew up with bad skin. I would have a had a whole different life if my skin was good. I know it, because even now I think of all kinds of missed opportunities that were missed all due to out of control bad skin.

I'll go look at your link in a minute.

Did you notice in this weekend's Times (I think it was, I don't think it was the WSJ) there was an announcement for some authors' engagements with a color pic of the authors. One of them was Martin Amis and in that pic he had red, blotchy skin. Someone then went on to describe him as having a Jaggerish sexuality or sex appeal... something along those lines.

[Ghost]

That does look interesting, Vicki. The book, I mean! I imagine Katherine Boo was having a good day (maybe after several treatments of some kind) and was wearing make-up for her pic. Some do and some do not (wear mu for public appearances).

[momwifeattny]

Please! fellow sufferers cut the vinegars from your diet....I do not know if apple cider is a problem, but I have had a dramatic improvement since cutting balsamic vinegar out of my salads. ...now it is just lemon juice and xvoo to dress my greens. ....after a month or so i will introduce the apple cider vinegar to see if it is ok for me.

so my diet is now practically all greens with meats and eggs........the up side is my jeans have never looked better!

[queta]

Cameron Diaz, does she really have rosacea? I thought she just had some problems with blushing like many girls...

Also, if those people do have rosacea i really admire them. For me any type of work is sooo hard with this disease.

I've seen pics of Cameron Diaz that shows she has rosacea. She sometimes looks puffy in the face and flushed.
Queta