Cara Delevingne stripped down on the Met Gala carpet — and didn’t feel the need to hide any imperfections.
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At the event earlier this week, the model and actor looked glamorous while wearing a head-to-toe Dior ensemble.
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But halfway through the red carpet, Cara ditched her red tailcoat to reveal that a lot of her body had been painted gold.
And in an age where many celebrities hurry to cover up anything society might consider a flaw, Cara decided to proudly show hers off — namely her psoriasis flare up.
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Fans noticed that Cara was painted gold everywhere, except the spots where she was experiencing the flare up near her elbows.
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Psoriasis is a common chronic disease that has no cure and tends to go through cycles of flare ups that can last from a few weeks to months.
The skin condition, which causes red, itchy scaly patches, is something Cara has been experiencing for years and she first opened up about in 2013.
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Back then, Cara exposed one of her flare ups on her stomach backstage at a fashion show, where she explained it happened at “stressful times” when she’s working a lot.
In fact, psoriasis is part of the reason Cara took a step back from modeling a few years later, explaining that some co-workers would not want to touch her because “they thought it was, like, leprosy or something.”
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“I am not doing fashion work anymore, after having, like, psoriasis and all that stuff. Modeling just made me feel a bit hollow after a while. It didn’t make me grow at all as a human being,” Cara told The Times.
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And while psoriasis may have played a factor in Cara’s decision to step away from the camera, it’s awesome to see her embracing it, let alone at one of the most photographed events of the year.
