Pia Miranda Opens Up About Getting Diagnosed With Lifelong Skin Condition On Survivor

Fans had noticed on the show


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Australian Survivor fan favourite Pia Miranda has taken to Instagram to share some personal news that she discovered while filming the season.

She revealed to her followers that a skin condition called 'vitiligo' visibly flared up while she spent time in Fiji earlier this year.

Vitiligo causes patches of skin to lose pigment and turn white.

The Looking For Alibrandi actress, shared a touching post with her followers today stating that it will now be a lifelong condition.

She wrote, "A few people have been asking me about my skin on Survivor, and if you have been watching you may have noticed that it’s going through somewhat of a transformation. Well it turns out that whilst playing I had a flare-up of an Autoimmune condition called Vitiligo that I didn’t know I had.  I was made aware of it but I decided to push through and not stress about it until I came home because... Survivor!”

Adding, Since seeing a specialist I’ve been told that it’s a condition that needs lifelong management, but I’m having some amazing treatment and it’s working really well so I’m feeling very lucky. It’s not ideal that it happened in real-time on TV, as it was pretty confronting knowing I was being filmed, but I think what initially felt like a negative, can be a positive. So for anyone who might be suffering from Vitiligo or any other condition that makes you feel like you look less than perfect, I hope that watching me out there kicking butt on Survivor (and also getting my butt kicked) without a stitch of makeup on, lifts your spirits.”

She continued, “I’m thinking there are enough perfect looking people on TV, so I’m happy to offer an alternative and be someone who is perfectly fine with being imperfect. Anyway, a bit of a skin thing isn’t going to stop me playing hard and having fun, so I hope you enjoy my journey because I sure did. (Except for the tower of terror, I did not enjoy that at ALL)  Pia xxx ✔️✔️ Also I’m drinking out of a copper cup now because some random Ayurvedic website said it would help (yes, I’m wearing makeup in this pic) #vitiligo”

This just made us love her even more!

What a boss.

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Carly Heading

2 September 2019

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