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Re: KP, red faces and sparse eyebrows
Keratosis Pilaris

From: I agree with Ann 100% - kim r
Remote Name: 198.81.26.208
Date: 29 Aug 2002
Time: 02:10:09 -0400

Comments

Ann is right- believe in yourselves!!! Even if your self esteem is not where you think it should be...Fake It! If you keep faking it, it will become real! trust me, I have been there. To those of you who are in high school, or younger, go beyond your skin...really! I was soo self conscious at 14, partially b/c of KP. It was NOT my KP that was keeping the boys away, but my insecurity showed in the way I carried myself and how I handled others. By the time I was a senior, I had one of the hottest guys at my school (voted best body :0))as my boyfriend (and it lasted 5 years until I dumped HIM), I was a cheerleader, and an AP honors student. Little did I know (and I found this out afterwards) no one knew I had KP! And I wore NO makeup (and I have red cheeks...still do), shorts and tank tops all the time. As you get older, other things are more inportant. People are far less critical. In fact, I worked with a friend for 5 years until we both realized the other had KP. The boyfriend I had before I met my husband had KP and I never knew until after we broke up (we remianed friends and it came up one day). My husband does not see my KP at all- he sees just his wife, his son's mother, his best friend. He only talks about KP when it is bugging me and he sees how it feels uncomfortable sometimes. KP is a royal pain in the butt, but I also suffer from chronic eczema on my soles of my feet, and I have conquered alopecia and let me tell you those were far worse than the KP. I am grateful I have my health otherwise, I can go snowboarding and surfing, watch hockey games and dance en pointe in ballet; I have great friends and a fantastic family. Live your life to the fullest - it is too short to be hard on yourself over something you cannot control (like the fact that I will never get the tv remote from my husband); live to the fullest and thank God or whoever else, YOURSELF, for all that you have and all that you are. Believe me, you are far too critical of yourself than other people are of you. I had a zit one day and my friends at work laughed that my face was not perfect. I looked in the mirror and I could see the redness through my makeup; they didn't and I couldn't figure it out. You are all good people. I believe it wholeheartedly and so should you.