Beauty queens are often expected to possess not just height but also good skin aside from voluptuous sexy body. But what if you’re stricken with a painful skin condition, what’s going to be your chances on becoming a beauty queen?
Bb. Pilipinas Grand International 2017 Elizabeth Clenci recently shared her struggles with eczema on her interview on “Tonight with Boy Abunda.”
Eczema is a medical condition that causes the skin to become itchy, red and painful.
Clenci said her joining the said beauty pageant wasn’t exactly a walk in the park. It has been her childhood dream to become a beauty queen but her skin condition used to discourage her to pursue it.
“I really had to trust in myself, in what I believe in to really push past what the doctors were saying, what everyone else were saying,” she said. “I really just went with my gut and my heart and did what I thought I needed to do to heal myself.”
She described her battle as “painful” at times, adding that she overcame it by going “completely natural.” She said: “I let the true healing take over.”
Back in October 2015, on her Instagram account, Clenci posted a photo of herself when her “skin was oozing and weeping, covered in fleshy wounds.” “My eyebrows fell off, my skin would itch furiously. Sudden movements would crack and create more wounds, resulting in the most agonizing year and a half of my life,” she shared.
Recently, she reposted another photo of her and said: “The photo on the right is me today…healed. I found true healing through change in diet and natural medicine.”
