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📖Florida author encourages kids to love the skin they’re in with new book about vitiligo
Read full article: 📖Florida author encourages kids to love the skin they’re in with new book about vitiligoA Brevard County author is using a new book to help spread confidence and reduce bullying through the understanding of a skin condition.
This Central Florida Latina has the world painted on her skin
Read full article: This Central Florida Latina has the world painted on her skinORANDO, Fla. – Ash Soto says she has the world painted on her body, but she wasn’t always so confident in showing it. The 25-year-old lives with vitiligo, a skin condition in which one’s skin cells stop functioning, causing the person to lose pigmentation. Those with vitiligo are often seen with white blotches or patches of skin that appear with patches of their original skin tone. There’s no way of predicting how much skin will be affected or a proven way to stop it, according to dermatologists. You have to embrace those big hips, vitiligo, or whatever the case may be because your skin tells a story.
Prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs, no hair: New Barbies reflect diverse customers
Read full article: Prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs, no hair: New Barbies reflect diverse customersBarbie dolls are known for getting makeovers, but, this time, the toys are evolving to better reflect the children who play with them. Barbie says a new release of toys is the brand’s “most diverse doll line” yet. Some of the new Barbies have rainbow-colored hair or no hair at all. Others have wheelchairs or prosthetic limbs and they come in varied skin tones. Barbie says on its website the dolls are to add "more diversity for endless storytelling possibilities."