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Singer LeAnn Rimes, born Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian got candid about her psoriasis she had been struggling with for more than 35 years.
In honor of World Psoriasis Day Rimes posed for Glamour, uploaded the photos in which she appears without clothes, through Instagram, and showed how beautiful she was with psoriasis. The 38-year-old singer added a caption alongside the photos that see her kneeling amid a green landscape:
“So much of my journey, both personally and within my creations, my new chant record and podcast coming out soon has been excavating pieces that I’ve been hiding and bringing them to the light. It’s been and still is a journey of allowing them out and welcoming and reintegrating those fragments back into wholeness. Music has been my gift, and why I’m here.”
Then she added that she desired to give a voice to these other pieces of her; she wanted to give a voice to what so many other people were going through.
“This is finally my time to be unabashedly honest about what psoriasis is and what it looks like.”
Two-time Grammy Award-winning artist announced that in addition to photos, she wrote an essay about her condition and described these efforts as a relief.
“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. My whole body—my mind, my spirit—needed this desperately. With today being World Psoriasis Day, I thought this would be the perfect time to share my story with @glamourmag,”
In the essay, the singer stated that all the people were worthy without the makeup and the artifice.
“We’re worthy of love without having to work for it. And that’s why I’m tired of hiding.”
See below to view Rimes’ Instagram post.
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