Live, enjoy and dare..... also with vitiligo!

Lianne and Lucinda at BNN

Lianne

22-year-old Lianne has the skin condition vitiligo, which causes her to have pigmentless spots all over her body. You will never see her in a bikini on the beach. She prefers to cover her body as much as possible. In the BNN program 'It gets better' she said in 2012 that she found the spots so ugly that she gave her appearance a 3. “People talk to my arms, I always feel that they are staring even though they are not.”

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Jan Jaap van der Wal

Jan Jaap van der Wal previously went through a difficult period due to his cleft lip. Now he has completely accepted his appearance, is a successful comedian and married to a beautiful woman who loves everything about Jan Jaap. In It Gets Better he talks to Lianne and explains to her that things will get better!

 

Lucinda

Lucinda was 22 when she participated in the BNN program 'The Undateables' in 2013. This was about young people who have difficulty starting a relationship due to a visible condition. Lucinda was very insecure because of her vitiligo. She also has spots on her face and had to show them in the program. That took some effort, but she did it anyway, and afterwards she is glad she participated. She received many positive reactions and therefore more self-confidence.

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