An NHS pharmacist has reached the Miss England final after overcoming low self-confidence caused by a rare skin condition she's suffered from since the age of 12. Amrita Saund, 26, has lived with vitiligo, a disease which causes white patches to appear on the body due to a lack of the pigment melanin in the skin.
Amrita has had vitiligo almost all her life, which saw her confidence plummet as a teenager. She began covering up the marks under both of her eyes with make-up to avoid comments and jibes from classmates.
She later became a specialist pharmacist on the critical care unit at Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital where she began overcoming her anxieties. It gave her the confidence to enter Miss England and last month Amrita swapped her NHS uniform for a pink diamante dress to compete on the catwalk in the semi-finals.
