Beyoncé may have inspired millions of fans to embrace our inner flawlessness, but even the Queen Bey herself has struggled with her fair share of less-than-perfect skin and hair days.
More specifically, Beyoncé opened up in a new Essence cover story about growing up in her mother Tina Knowles’s hair salon, and her “deeply personal” hair care journey—a large part of which has been impacted by the fact that she lives with the skin condition psoriasis.
“I have many beautiful memories attached to my hair,” Beyoncé told Essence. “The relationship we have with our hair is such a deeply personal journey. From spending my childhood in my mother’s salon to my father applying oil on my scalp to treat my psoriasis—these moments have been sacred to me.”
These memories also helped inspire Beyoncé to launch her own hair care line, Cécred, which is available to shop on Cecred.com as of February 20.
“I think that connection of community, mother and child, father and child, and respect—and allowing yourself to be taken care of, especially for Black women, who are always taking care of everyone else—it’s all sacred,” Beyoncé said.
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Beyoncé isn’t the only A-lister to open up about psoriasis—and how they’ve chosen to treat it—as of late. Kim Kardashian recently claimed that she uses a tanning bed to treat her psoriasis, a method that dermatologists universally recommend against.
Psoriasis is also a common affliction in the overall population: According to the National Psoriasis Foundation, psoriasis affects more than 3% of the adult population in the U.S., which amounts to over 7.5 million adults.
As for what psoriasis actually is? According to Joshua Zeichner, MD, board-certified dermatologist and associate professor of dermatology at New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital, it’s an inflammatory condition where your immune cells essentially become “angry at your skin,” which “leads to characteristic red, scaly plaques that can affect any part of the body.”
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