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Published 16:53 30 Oct 2020 GMT
LeAnn Rimes is embracing her psoriasis with a couple of nude Instagram photos, showcasing some of the symptoms of the skin condition.
The 'How Do I Live' country singer was diagnosed with psoriasis when she was just two years old, per Fox News.
On Thursday, October 29, aka World Psoriasis Day, Rimes posted two snaps in which the musician could be seen sitting nude in a field, covered in small red patches.
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The lengthy caption reads:
"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. But I want to give a voice to these other pieces of me. And I want to give a voice to what so many other people are going through."
This baby was born with a condition in which most of his skin was missing from his body:
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The heartfelt caption continues:
"This is finally my time to be unabashedly honest about what psoriasis is and what it looks like.
"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 a recent interview as part of the cover story for Glamor magazine, Rimes explained that she had tried everything she could to treat the condition including steroid creams and major medications.
She also recalls using a Saran Wrap to wrap herself in coal tar. And when she was in public, Rimes went to great lengths to hide her symptoms.
"Onstage I’d often wear two pairs of pantyhose or jeans - even in 95-degree heat," Rimes added. "Underneath my shirt, my whole stomach would be covered in thick scales that would hurt and bleed. For so much of my life, I felt like I had to hide."
