Soap beauty Georgia May Foote has shared about living with the skin condition vitiligo after developing new patches on holiday. Vitiligo is a long-term condition where pale white patches develop on the skin caused by the lack of melanin, a substance in the body that produces hair, eye and skin colouring.
The condition can affect any area of skin, but it commonly happens on the face, neck and hands and in skin creases. Last summer the former Coronation Street star from Bury revealed she'd had the condition for two years.
She recalled that after initially being told that it could be a yeast infection she received a final diagnosis of vitiligo from a dermatologist. Georgia said she was developing new spots all the time with her hands mostly affected by the condition and patches mirrored on both sides of her body. This is a sign of non-segmental vitiligo, the most common type of the condition.
