LeAnn Rimes
Country music is huge in America but the lead singers in the genre, nowadays anyways, don’t always stick out. LeAnn Rimes is one of the few remaining true leading ladies of country. The woman got her start in country back in 1996 when she dropped her debut album, ‘Blue’. The record would go on to top the country charts and cause her to explode in popularity. Somewhere along the way Rimes began to deal with the fact that she had psoriasis on an almost global level. In 2008 she took time to talk about her disease via a PSA about psoriasis and then she would go on to become the spokeswoman for Sheer Cover make up. While she rose to fame as a beautiful starlet, the pressure would cause her psoriasis to break out more than ever. So Rimes took to eating right and exercising as her new psoriasis treatment. Rimes spoke candidly by saying that “psoriasis affects you both physically and emotionally.” It’s hard not to be proud of how far she has come.
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Phil Mickelson
There are a few faces of professional golf left in the world and Phil Mickelson is one of them. The veteran golfer made his debut way back in 1992 and since then he has been going strong. He’s won 51 professional tourneys, 42 PGA tours, and 9 Euro tours. He’s one of the most storied golfers to ever play the game. In 2010, about a month before the U.S. Open, Mickelson began to suffer paint in his joints that was severe enough to cause worry. He would later find out that he had psoriatic arthritis. Another extension of psoriasis, this joint condition is common among those already suffering from the genetic skin condition. Mickelson had been suffering from the skin version of psoriasis for about eight years at this point. Mickelson went on to aggressively treat his problem with a medicine called Enbrel, a biological drug that works in about 50% of the patients that try it. Mickelson is still going strong.
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