Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has opened up about his port wine birthmark – after spending his “entire life” attempting to cover it.
The 1979 and Bullet With Butterfly Wings singer posted on social media to point out the distinguished purple mark on his left arm and hand.
Within the caption, he stated he supported physique positivity actions “as a result of on the finish of the day it’s about celebrating what makes us ‘us'”.
The 57-year-old additionally posted a photograph of mannequin Carlotta Bertotti – who has a birthmark on her face – for instance of somebody “who has embraced her ‘distinction’ with grace”.
He then stated: “My entire life I’ve endeavoured to cover my ‘port wine’ birthmarks as a result of as you’ll be able to think about I used to be teased unmercifully about them as a baby.
“A lot in order that individuals who have recognized me for a decade are shocked once they lastly ‘see it’.”
Corgan added that “even now” he’s stopped on the road by individuals “not as a result of they acknowledge me however as a result of they assume one thing is incorrect with me that requires medical consideration”.
“Plus the random questions: Is {that a} burn? Are you sick? Is it contagious? Does it harm?” he wrote.
“So optimistic message for the day: Whoever you’re, I hope you discover peace with who you’re as a result of: I wish to know that individual and nobody else.”
In accordance with the NHS and Nice Ormond Avenue Hospital, a port wine stain birthmark is attributable to the irregular improvement of blood vessels within the pores and skin.
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Port wine stains can turn into thicker, darken and develop raised bumps and ridges in time.
Whereas they’re normally innocent, the NHS says the birthmarks can generally develop small blood vessel blisters referred to as papules or pyogenic granulomas, which might bleed simply.
