1. Maude Apatow became candid about dealing with herskinwhile shootingEuphoria. “When I started working and wearing more makeup, my skin got really worse,” she said duringVogue’s Beauty Secretsseries. Her breakouts were so bad that she toldEuphoriamaker Sam Levinson to “be careful with the lighting,” she continued.

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“I was shooting Euphoria a couple months ago, and I got three gigantic zits on my forehead. You couldn’t cover them — they were so big. And they stuck out,” she explained.
2. Keke Palmer have told]] that for her, PCOS comes with acne — something she has to deal with. In an Instagram post, she said that after doctors ignored her for years, it was she who took it upon herself to research her symptoms. My acne has been so bad that people in my field have offered to pay for me to get it fixed.” I tried EVERYTHING. I did Accutane TWICE. “You hear drink water, have a better diet, but I did all that, I ate all the ‘right’ things, my blood tests didn’t show anything.”
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“I’m sharing this to say that it’s OK and we can help ourselves. There are many nights my skin made me sad but I refuse to fail myself. I have known this is not me and my body has been seeking help,” she wrote. “I’m not a doctor but I did the research and brought that information to a doctor and that helped them get an accurate diagnosis. I’m not saying WebMD everything haha, what I am saying is no one can help us like we can help ourselves.
3. Throughout the years, Lili Reinhart has been very open about managing her breakouts. “I’ve had cystic acne since I was 12. And it has caused major self-esteem issues ever since,” she wrote in an Instagram story. “I always text my mom when I have a bad breakout. I tell her how ugly I feel and how these breakouts shatter my confidence every time they appear.”

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“I don’t know if or when I’ll get to a point where I’ll be able to accept my skin as it is. It’s problematic. It easily scars, it hurts,” she said. “But I hope that one day I can feel beautiful even when I have a breakout.”
She also talked about why she thought it was important to be so open about her struggle. She said, “I feel a need to tell about my struggle with acne. Because maybe if I normalize my skin, more people… myself included… will be able to feel okay about their skin. My breakouts don’t define me. To everyone out there who feels embarrassed or ashamed by breakouts… I feel you. “We have each other so let’s go through this acne journey together.”
4. Justin Bieber spoke openly about his experience with adult acne and said that he’s tried a ton of different products, but none of them have worked. “I think at some point it’s preference and opinion, not factual,” he said on his Facebook Watch series The Biebers on Watch. “Because some things work on certain skin, and some skin reacts bad to certain products and some skin reacts nice to certain products.”

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“I would break out when I got super stressed, but it would never stay, but now it’s like so cystic and it’s bubbly and it won’t go away. It definitely bugs me. I wear a lot of hats now, so that probably makes it a ton worse,” he added. “It is the worst for your self-confidence because…especially with all those filters on Instagram. People are like perfect with their skin and you think that’s a reality.”
5. Millie Bobby Brown has also been very open about her acne, often posting selfies without makeup and wearing pimple patches. “My journey with acne is something very personal to me,” she wrote on Instagram. “We all deserve to feel confident & comfortable in our own skin & I hope by sharing my experience, you feel inspired to embrace your skin & love it no matter what stage it’s in!”
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6. Selena Gomez spoke about managing her breakouts during her Beauty Secrets video with Vogue. “I’ve for sure had acne, and usually it’s kind of all in the T-zone. I try not to pick at anything. Sometimes that’s hard,” she said. “When you are taking care of your skin you are taking care of your body and your mind and your soul just because I think it’s all connected.”
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“I notice when I get stressed or something I break out more or I get lazy with my routine so I feel like it’s just become a part of it. And I just deal with whatever I got that day,” she said.
7. SZA revealed that before she became famous, she worked in Sephora’s skincare department and that knowledge has helped her with her own skin struggles. “Don’t get discouraged with your skin when it doesn’t do what you want it to do and you feel like, fuck this product. Give it some time. Some of that shit takes a month to break through,” she said. “Touring fucked my skin up on a whole ‘nother level. 200 meet-and-greets a day. Cheek to cheek. Sweating, hair on my face, mic on my face…”
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“I used to work in the skin-care department [at Sephora], so I know for a fact that everyone’s skin is different,” she added. The key is consistency and simplification. I can’t be trying a whole bunch of different shit that I see, likeHuda Beautydoing six experiments in a week — imma look crazy. Her skin is invincible. I don’t come from that gene pool, so I just do what I know. Once in a while, if I see somethingreallycool, I’ll be like, ‘Let me try this little turmeric mask. “
8. In an interview with PopSugar, Emma Chamberlain spoke about how dealing with acne has been the “most difficult thing” she’s ever experienced. “I fully understand that no matter what anybody says it’s really, really tough and there’s nothing that anybody can say or do to make it any easier. It would be, in a way, punching my younger self in the face to be like, ‘Oh, having acne, well, it goes away one day. You’ll be OK.’ No, it’s one of the most difficult things I’ve personally ever dealt with self-esteem-wise and just in general, in life,” she said.
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“That journey was so, so, so important because it taught me how to feel confident in myself whether I had good skin or bad skin,” she added. There is something so empowering about coming out the other side of it, whether you just grow out of your acne, or you find the key that works for you — whatever your journey may be. Anyone who ever had a pimple can fucking do anything.”
9. Rachel Bloom posted a selfie rocking a breakout and encouraged Crazy Ex-Girlfriend fans to see if they could spot it when the episode aired. “The middle of shooting the season (around episode 8) is peak time for my hormones to run amok due to a hectic schedule,” she wrote on Instagram. “Try to spot the bloating, fatigue and zits and win a prize! (But hopefully you won’t thanks to [makeup artist] @srollertaylor).
10.Lorde spoke candidly about her battle with acne in a series of Instagram videos, and how tiring the skincarediscoursecan be. “For real though, acne sucks. You know what also sucks? When you’ve been dealing with acne for years and years and years. Tried every drug, done everything, and people were still like, ‘You know what helped me? Moisturizing,'” she said. “The absolute worst one is — oh, naturally — if people think you’re just dirty.” ‘Do you wash your face?’ It’s like, yes I wash my face, I’m just genetically cursed.”

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She finished up by saying, “For anyone out there who’s got actual bad skin — I feel your pain. We’ll get there, we will. I promise.”
11. Finally, Charli D’Amelio opened up about her choice not to edit out her acne in photos and videos she posts online. Replying to a fan comment praising her she said, “It’s taken me a long time to feel comfortable in my skin but this is how I look and makeup only helps so much. I have to be confident and learn to love every ‘imperfection’ that I have [because] each one makes me unique and special in my own way.”
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