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Hard Feelings with Jennette McCurdy

acne (rerun)

Hard Feelings with Jennette McCurdy

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

once upon a time there was a girl named jennette who struggled with acne. she then became a woman named jennette who still struggled with acne. this was a confusing and frustrating journey for her. until she met a handsome prince named benzoyl peroxide. only, the story is a lot more complicated than that. listen to the episode to hear the full fairytale.

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0:00.0

Lemonnara.

0:06.0

Okay, I want to talk about acne. I'm going and I am still struggling, capital S struggling with acne.

0:35.0

I've struggled with it my entire life since I was maybe you know 15 16

0:40.0

and as a kid naturally my skin was really smooth, you know, by 12, 13, 14 people start getting

0:46.5

blemishes. There weren't any insight for me just smooth, flawless skin until puberty hits.

0:55.0

Initially I thought it was happening for me because of,

1:00.0

I was on TV and I'd have to have like thick caked on makeup under the bright lights.

1:05.0

It was a sitcom set so you're very far away from the cameras and they just kind of pound on the makeup so you don't look dead.

1:10.0

I'm very pale and I can look very corpse like very easily.

1:15.0

So they would just kind of pack that on and I thought,

1:18.0

okay, it's a result of just make up for 12 hours a day

1:21.0

plus bright lights and it's just seeping into my pores.

1:25.2

And I tried a lot of, honestly my mom had me try a lot of stuff then, but I don't know.

1:29.9

I used to think she was like a skincare expert and now the older I've gotten and the more clarity I've gotten on her.

1:34.5

I'm like I don't know what she was doing there.

1:37.9

Anyway, I thought it was just because of bright I was on

1:45.0

course this I was on shows for like years and then it stopped and not the

1:51.2

acne did not stop the TV shows stopped and I still had acne.

1:55.0

I would try keeping my face makeup free as many days as I could but also

2:00.0

the biggest thing for me is it makes me so insecure.

2:04.4

Oh my God, you guys.

2:06.8

Like it just, it affects my self-esteem really negatively.

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