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By Mari Cartel, Lifescript Entertainment Editor

Can you win “America’s Next Top Model” with a skin disease? CariDee English proved you can. In this exclusive Lifescript interview, the runway star talks about her struggle with psoriasis. Plus, check out “before” and “after” photos of English in our slideshow…


Tall, stunning, leggy – “America’s Next Top Model” CariDee English has a lot in common with other runway queens.

But unlike most of them, English has battled psoriasis since childhood. At some points, the red, flaky scales common to the condition covered most of her body.

Most psoriasis sufferers feel like lepers. But not English. The CW reality star has taken a no-pity accepted approach toward her disease.

Since winning the “top model” title in 2006, English, 24, has become a spokeswoman for the National Psoriasis Foundation.

In this Lifescript exclusive, English talks about growing up with an incurable disease, modeling and beauty tips for concealing psoriasis. She also reveals private photos of herself before, during and after an outbreak.

How has psoriasis affected your modeling career?
I was kicked to the curb so many times. I went to Florida one year for a modeling convention. One agency that was interested didn’t know about my psoriasis. They signed me when I was 17. I packed up my whole life – even graduated high school early to move down to Miami.

Two weeks later, they got the test shots back and they [asked], ‘What’s going on with your legs?’

I had makeup on, but we were shooting at the beach. It washed off and [the psoriasis showed up on the photos.]

I said, ‘Jeez, you might want to get a new photographer because this film looks a little sketchy.’

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