07/28/2025
🙀 Do you see that “cute” white patch and dark freckles on my right ankle? That’s an .
👎🏻 In 2007 or so, I got asked to leave a modeling job when they noticed that spot on my lower leg.
It was mid-photoshoot. They flat out told me I had to go because my leg wasn’t perfect. 😢
☠️ I got vetiligo around 12 years old after getting chewed up by a black while walking to school. That dog bit me twice and because I was so thin, it bit through my thigh and I couldn’t walk all summer- the muscle had to heal. The didn’t just leave bullet-point- like scars on my thigh and my hip, but it triggered an autoimmune disease. Very soon after that trauma I got these large white patches on the same side that the dog bit. One on my ankle, the other one on my knee, and at some point I had it on my right eye.
Doctors said to prepare for that 💩 to spread all over, BUT! DON’T YOU WORRY girl- it’s not contagious. Like IGAF if it was. I thought I would be spotty, like a cow.
A few years later, with a huge, prominent white vetiligo spot became famous.
Modeling makes zero sense. The people in the business destroy your because they just don’t care.
Do you think I went home crying that I was kicked off that job? F-ck no. ❌
Not much time later I got a gig where my feet were not in the picture, and everyone fawned over my “beautiful” spotless hands, and these hands got on a book cover.
The moral of the story- if you get , it’s not because of you. It’s because they’re idiots. Go do something else and kick ass.
The update on my Vitiligo- doctors said to keep it out of the sun and the first few years I did, religiously. Then I got tired of that stupid SPF routine and just left it alone. After multiple summer vacations to the Amalfi Coast and Miami- the knee spot started to vanish. It’s completely gone now. The eye spot was not as visible from the beginning.
Now, 28 years after being diagnosed- the ankle spot is almost gone and is now covered with dark freckles. I don’t care.
Enjoy my giant ankle freckles, don’t get killed by large dogs, and go to the Amalfi Coast without sunscreen. 🥳🫶🏻 ☮️