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Amanda Seyfried shows the products she uses to cove up eczema flare-ups.
We all know that celebrities are just as imperfect beneath all the makeup, airbrushing and other various beautifying treatments they have access to. And yet, while we might understand this on an intellectual level, it’s hard not to compare ourselves to the flawless standard that constantly comes across our screens.
That is, until a celebrity actually shows said imperfect skin. Which is the route that A-lister Amanda Seyfried decided to go for her TikTok GRWM (short for Get Ready With Me) for Vogue.
While most celeb GRWMs show already glowing faces marketing buzzy products (often from the celeb’s own skincare brand), Seyfried took a more candid approach by centering it around how she deals with her eczema, and people are loving her for it.
Eczema, also known as atopic or perioral dermatitis, is a chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by dry, itchy, and red skin. It’s pretty common, with around 10% of the country’s population having it. And while there are treatments that can help manage symptoms and prevent flare-ups, it isn’t curable. So a rash now and then is kind of par for the course.
In the video below, Seyfried appears to have a bit of a flare-up, and quips ““You might be thinking: ‘What’s that on her face?’”
“That’s my eczema,” she continues, “and I, too, suffer from perioral dermatitis. When I was 19, I started developing the rash, and I learned about a lot of medication products — I learned a lot about just products in general from my dermatologist at the time.”
She then begins her routine, which includes washing her face. “The rash is screaming,” she notes, “But that’s OK, because I’m gonna cover it. I’m using this medicated cream for this little cutie mustache.”
This moment in particular seemed to resonate with viewers. As one person wrote, “‘and the rash is screaming!’ As an eczema girly, FELT THAT.”
Moving on, Seyfried applies her topical medication, followed by a toner, serum, and concealer to cover any red patches. After she’s done, you really can’t detect any skin issues going on.
“You see how easy that was? I don’t need to get rid of all the redness — I wouldn’t even know how to try,” she concludes.
@voguemagazine In the latest installment of Vogue’s #BeautySecrets, #AmandaSeyfried opens up about her skincare journey including her struggles with #Eczema and the products she uses to cover it. Tap the link in our bio to watch the full episode.
And sure, a lot of folks who also deal with eczema might have gotten some product inspiration, but perhaps more importantly, they got to feel reassured by Seyfried’s unfazed attitude towards it all, even if she can’t completely get rid of it.
All in all, people praised Seyfried for opening up about this struggle. Both those who also have skin challenges, and those who are just a wee bit tired of the overly perfect celebrity image.
“I absolutely love seeing celebrities showing their natural face. It makes people feel included and fights against the super unrealistic beauty standards.”
“As a rosacea girly who constantly wears makeup to hide my red face in shame, this video makes me so happy."
“I have atopic eczema and this is the FIRST TIME I am seeing someone famous talking about it and showing it on the internet. This is a real confidence boost!!!”
“This healed me.”
“From one eczema girly to another, it’s SO refreshing to see someone in the public eye talk openly about their skin condition.”
“Wow! It really goes to show how many products celebrities use. And the internet just continues to fall for such unattainable beauty standards. Glad this video is pulling back the curtain. It’s so important."
People even commended Vogue for ditching its usual glam fanfare, and asked for more of the same.
As one viewer astutely put it, “People are dying for authenticity. Thank you.” Another simply wrote, “Vogue, you COOKED with this.”
So yes, to all the eczema/rosacea/acne/younameit girlies (and boys, and themies)…you are not alone. And when celebrities are willing to break through the illusion of perfection, we can easily remember that we are all human. And we don’t have to feel less than for needing extra concealer or special cream or whatnot. Truly, none of us are perfect.
Left: Teacher Diane Tirado. Right: The note she left for students after being fired.
If you're of the mind that kids today are being coddled and not properly prepared for the real world, well, you might want to buckle up for this one. The story out of a public school in Florida has parents and teachers alike up in arms.
A Florida teacher was fired for giving her students zeros for missing assignments. Diane Tirado has been a teacher for years. Most recently, she was an eighth-grade history teacher at Westgate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Diane recently gave her students two weeks to complete an Explorer notebook project, but several students simply didn't hand it in. Since there was zero work done, Diane gave them zeros.
She got fired for it.
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The lowest possible grade that teachers can give students is a 50, even if they don't turn anything in. That means that an extremely poor completed assignment is worth the same number of points as no assignment at all.
Hardly seems fair, right? Westgate is far from the only school that has such a policy, however.
A message written on the whiteboard for her students after Diane Tirado was firedDiane Tirado/Facebook
It's a rule that Diane, unsurprisingly, does not agree with. After she was fired for disobeying, she left her students a charming goodbye message on the whiteboard.
"Bye kids. Mrs. Tirado loves you and wishes you the best in life. I have been fired for refusing to give you a 50 percent for not handing anything in. Love, Mrs. Tirado"
The scale, as outlined by the school, reads as follows:
A = 90 to 100
B = 80 to 89
C = 70-79
D = 60-69
F = 50-59
Diane later shared the story on Facebook, hoping to spread awareness about the school's policy.
“A grade in Mrs. Tirado's class is earned," she said.
“I'm so upset because we have a nation of kids that are expecting to get paid and live their life just for showing up and it's not real."
Diane's post has gone viral, and most commenters agree with her position – it's not fair to hand out grades for work that doesn't exist.
No zero policies are common in many schools, and teachers notoriouslyhate them. But it's at least worth considering why they exist. Some educators say it's because when a student earns a zero, it's very difficult for them to ever recover their grade in that class. In other words, it may be too harsh. Others argue that, if you don't want a zero, don't turn in nothing! Getting an earned-zero is a great way to learn to at least try.
A follow up statement from the school stated: "Ms. Tirado was released from her duties as an instructor because her performance was deemed sub-standard and her interactions with students, staff, and parents lacked professionalism and created a toxic culture on the school’s campus. ... During her brief time of employment at West Gate, the school fielded numerous student and parent complaints as well as concerns from colleagues. Based on new information shared with school administrators, an investigation of possible physical abuse is underway."
However, school representatives did not deny the existence of the no zero policy, and Tirado claims the school engaged in a smear campaign after she became a "whistleblower" on their policies. She's currently considering legal action against the district.
Still, the debate over the grading policy rages on.
“The reason I took on this fight was because it was ridiculous. Teaching should not be this hard," Diane said.
This article originally appeared 6 years ago.
Richard Dreyfuss and his son Ben Dreyfuss
Actor Richard Dreyfuss (star of “Jaws” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”) shared intimate photos of the birth of his son Ben that showed the shock and confusion parents experience when realizing their newborn has a birth abnormality.
On June 14, 1986, Dreyfuss and his wife Jeramie Rain had their second child and they could tell something was wrong shortly after his delivery. “Your eyes are not the same,” Ben would later write about his birth. “One is blue, the other is grey. One is hiding under a partially opened eye-lid; the other is extending far beyond it, like a potato exploding out of an egg cup.”
It was the “most traumatic and emotional moment of my life,” Richard wrote on Twitter. “My wife Jeramie gave birth to our second amazing child. And, as these pictures show, we slowly realized there was a problem with our son.”
The actor’s photos are touching because they show the parents experiencing the incredible beauty of the birth while struggling to make sense of the unexpected.
“I held him and promised him that I would do everything I could [to] save him. That I would love him no matter what,” the “Mr. Holland’s Opus” star wrote.
Ben would later be diagnosed with Peters anomaly, a rare genetic condition that causes a clouding of the cornea and eye-structure abnormalities. Over the first year of Ben’s life, he would have multiple eye operations and would eventually lose all sight in his left eye.
Richard Dreyfuss and his son Ben DreyfussImages via Wikicommons and Twitter
He explained what life’s like with one eye in a blog post his father shared at the end of his tweet thread. It’s a raw open letter to himself that details how his struggles with being different evolved as he developed.
It’s a revealing glimpse into the interior monologue of someone who knows he’s being stared at but everyone is too polite to bring it up.
“Eventually you come around to the idea that much more noticeable than the eye itself is your reaction to it,” he writes. “You couldn’t make eye contact with anyone for decades. Upon this realization, you decided to make piercing eye contact with everyone.”
Ben is a journalist who was in charge of audience development at Mother Jones for eight years. He has a popular Substack blog called “Good Faith” where he discusses the intersection of politics and social media from the unique perspective of a liberal with no problem pointing out progressive excesses.
Richard Dreyfuss’ photos of his son’s birth show that all the fame and acclaim in the world can be quickly dispatched when we see that there is something wrong with a child. But on a deeper level, they are an intimate look at the faces of parents whose lives have been upended in a moment they expected would be wholly joyous.
It’s a moment that many parents have unfortunately had to weather and hopefully, the photos will give them comfort knowing that the despair will soon be overcome by love.
This article originally appeared two years ago.
A devastated man sitting by the ocean.
Ten months after a man’s wife passed away, he finally got the courage to read a letter she left him, which contained a devastating admission. The 4-year-old son they had together may not be his.
“My ‘darling’ wife passed away 10 months ago,” the man wrote on Reddit’s Off My Chest forum. “She wrote a letter for me before she died, but I couldn’t bring myself to read it until now. She told me how sorry she was that she didn’t have the guts to tell me this to my face when she was alive.”
In the letter, the wife revealed that there was a “good chance” that the son he thought was his wasn’t his biological child. A few weeks before their wedding day, the wife got drunk at her bachelorette party and had a one-night stand with another man. Soon after that night, she became pregnant but was unsure who the father was.
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The man was torn whether or not to have the paternity test done. The child had only one parent in this world, and he would have to take care of him regardless. He also thought it was cowardly that his former wife would wait until she was no longer around to share the truth with him.
“So she thought she’d rather drop this bomb on my life when I could no longer confront her about it,” the man wrote. “Now that my son would only have one parent looking out for him, and she’d have no idea how I would even react. Maybe I should not have got the paternity test done. Maybe it might be better to live in ignorance. But I just had to know.”
The man took the paternity test and learned he wasn’t the child’s biological father.
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“I’m devastated. This doesn’t change how I feel about my son,” he wrote. “He’s my whole world and he’s innocent. But boy, does it hurt. There’s so much going on in my head right now. I haven’t stopped crying. Thank god my son is at my parents' place for the day. I’d hate for him to see me like this.”
Facing a pain nearly too much for him to bear, the only outlet he had at the moment was reaching out to Reddit to find some solace. “I just needed to let this all out. Don’t have it in me to tell anyone in my life about this right now,” he wrote.
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The commenters send him hundreds of messages of support to get him through the shock of first learning the truth about his family.
The most popular message was straightforward and honest.
"All your feelings are valid, a lot of people will react with some kind of toxic positivity to things like these. Your feelings are valid. Each and everyone," femunndsmarka wrote.
Another commenter added that someday, his son will appreciate how he stepped up and did what was right in a very trying circumstance.
“He is going to find out the truth one day. Imagine how much more he will love you knowing you didn’t leave him, even though he wasn’t yours,” ImNotGoodatThis6969.
Another commenter provided valuable insight from the son’s perspective.
"As an adopted child, I just want to thank you on behalf of your son. I deeply believe it changes nothing, family is not about blood, its about who you love, want to have by your side, and care for the most. Sending hugs, strength and gratitude," Mariuuq wrote.
The father at the heart of this story is understandably devastated because his life was upended almost overnight. But the hope in the story is that his trials also taught him a powerful truth—his love for his son goes much deeper than blood.
This article originally three years ago.
