Stassi Schroederis candidly showing what it means to be a psoriasis sufferer.
“Here’s a little no makeup Monday realness,” shecaptioned the image. “Pretty sure last night’s GOT episode worsened my psoriasis.”
Some 7.5 million Americans suffer frompsoriasis, an autoimmune disorder that develops when the immune system kicks into overdrive, causing skin cells to grow too quickly. These cells accumulate on the skin, causing scaly, red patches, which can range from relatively mild to very severe.
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This isn’t the first time that Schroeder has shared a makeup-free selfie, highlighting her battle with psoriasis.
“This psoriasis situation is not on fleek,” she said in the post,according toBravo.com. “If anybody else suffers from this and gets it on their face, I’m with you.”
“If you suffer from psoriasis, you ain’t alone. S— sucks,” she added in a separate post.
In an interview with Bravo’sThe Daily Dish, the star explained that she speaks out about her psoriasis to ensure that other people suffering from skin condition do not feel alone.
“I don’t like when women feel insecure, and I don’t want them to ever look at me and feel that way so that’s why if I need to talk about my psoriasis or the fact that I’m wearing pairs of Spanx, fine,” she said.
Psoriasis isn’t the only thing that Schroeder has been candid about. The star also has spoken honestly about her experience with plastic surgery, including herbreast reduction surgery scars, the effects of a chin implant and even her thoughts on Botox.
In January 2018, Schroeder shared photos of her body halfway through her breast reduction procedure to go from a DDD to a regular D and called it “one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.”
She also made it a point to make sureher scars weren’t edited out of a photo shootshe did last year.
“I was like ‘Don’t edit out my scars.’ They’re awesome. I like being myself and I feel that everyone should embrace themselves,” Schroeder told PEOPLE. “It’s a scar! Scars are pretty! It’s almost like a birthmark or something like that where it’s something to not be ashamed of.”
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Her breast reduction and lift in 2015 were also topics of conversation in her book,Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook,which hit bookshelves last month.
“Let me tell you, it is constantly uncomfortable to feel a heavy book hanging like a pancake on your stomach,” she wrote, adding that the procedure was something she’d “fantasized” about from the age of 12. “When I finally met with a surgeon I told them that I didn’t care about the scars — just butcher me up.”
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Earlier this year, Schroeder opened up to PEOPLE about starting Botox when she was just 23 years old.
“I’ve always done it conservatively, and I have it down to a science. I know exactly how much I like to get, where I like to get it, and I always tell my doctor, ‘You know, I need to have some expression,'” Schroeder, who gets theprocedure done in the off-season, said in February.
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The reality star also opened up in her book about going under the knife for the first time toreceive a chin implantas a high school graduation gift from her parents.
“If you’re questioning their parenting skills, whatevs,” she wrote. “They trusted my judgment, and I was desperate for a bigger chin and more define jawline… it ended up being freaking awesome. It’s one of the best things I ever did and to this day it makes me feel better about myself.”
source: people.com
