Vitiligo celebrities

Darcel De Vlugt turned White

Darcel De Vlugt, from Islington, North London, was born to black parents from Trinidad but she turned white because of Vitiligo (Vitiligo causes the immune system to attack the pigment cells). The first signs of vitiligo appeared when Darcel was only of five years. Her parents, Peter and Charmaine, say the girl had some white spots on the forehead and the forearm.

This disease started progression and in just two years she had developed vitiligo on her arms and legs too. Progression of vitiligo continued and turned 80 percent of her body white and by the time she turned seventeen her skin had completely turned white.

Doctors say that they haven’t seen this type of case before in which a person completely turns white because of vitiligo.

Eddie Panlilio

Eddie Panlilio & Vitiligo:Ed Panlilio is afflicted with vitiligo.He said that,

“This disease is not a life-threatening ailment, and is not serious enough to stop him from doing his duties as a public official until June 2010.Vitiligo”, or the partial loss of pigment, which is also called as a Michael Jackson Disease by his skin disorder, is not contagious, so our constituents need not fear coming near me or shaking my hands.”. His doctors said, “It could be hereditary or caused by a virus from the environment or due to tension”

Michael Jackson-king of pop

 

Michael Jackson & vitiligo:Jackson is suffered with vitiligo and he revealed this truth in the early 1990s that, he had a skin disorder behind his skin which us turning him brown to white. His actual skin clour was a medium-brown . His dermatologist,Dr Arnold Klien diagnosed vitiligo and lupus in Michael in 1980s, which is a devastating disease.

Big Krizz Kaliko

Big Krizz & Vitiligo:Kaliko has not created or animated any story about his vitiligo, for the shake of his popularity. His real facial picture is prominently displayed on his album’s cover. His songs of debut album show sympathy for every one who has vitiligo. He feels that, those who suffer from this rare skin dysfunction namely vitiligo skin diseases, are sometimes ostracized from their own peer group due to their strange appearance. He said to the world that”
“Until now you may have thought “ vitiligo” was a fictitious disease, an invention of the deranged mind of Michael Jackson to explain intentionally bleaching his skin but this all is quite untrue…vitiligo is a disease which exists”.

Lee Thomas

He openly talks about his vitiligo in a book Turning Time, In which he has mentioned through a journey titled Turning White: A Memoir of Change, that how vitiligo has affected on his life and career. Thomas says that, he’s met with so many people who had this disorder, and they had loss their self confidence and has became less active in their social active. They imagine it like, some leprosy-type of disease, but it is quite untrue He says. “A lot of folks feel this disease has trapped them and kept them away from their life goals”.