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Famous People with Rosacea
Bill
Clinton, U.S President
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US News online reported that Bill Clinton flushes, has a swollen red
nose and red bumps speckling his chin and his right cheek. These
are all symptoms of a moderate case of Rosacea.
Full Article:
"Leading
with his nose" By Emily Yoffe. Published in US News,
March 1997
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Rembrandt van Rijn, Painter
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Rembrandt van Rijn
Self-Portrait, 1659
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An article published in the Lancet Interactive journal studied
Rembrandt using his self-portraits and came to the conclusion that Rembrandt may
had had rosacea:
"Rembrandt's face also presents signs of inflammatory dermatosis: an
erythematous, papular skin disease (figure 4)--the nine spots. Eight seem to be
papular lesions: one on the chin, three on the nose, and four on the left cheek.
The blotch under the right eye, with a fading halo, as if with spider's legs,
resembles a telangiectatic lesion. These findings suggest a diagnosis of rosacea.
The bulbous nose with a coarse skin indicates rhinophyma"
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Full article:
"A medical evaluation of Rembrandt. His self-portrait: ageing, disease, and
the language of the skin" [may require free
registration to view]
Author/s: Carlos Hugo Espinel - Issue: Dec 20, 1997
published in the Lancet Interactive.
Letter Disputing this
analysis [may require free registration to view]
published 21 March 1998
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Enlargement
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Self Portrait
(Englargement)
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Princess
Diana
According to the rosaceainfo.com
website, a book
entitled Royal Fashion and Beauty
Secrets, published in the
early nineties by Ann Chubb said that Princess Diana had been
noted to experience the facial redness and flare-ups associated
with rosacea.
[Note: Apart from this book, I have
come across no other supporting evidence that Diana had rosacea.
If she did indeed have rosacea then it is likely that her symptoms
(flushing) were mild enough to be covered by makeup.]
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