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Cyndi Lauper opens up about living with psoriasis

Cyndi Lauper, pictured in June 2015. Michael Loccisano / Getty Images

TORONTO — Cyndi Lauper has opened up about living with psoriasis, a skin disease for which there is no cure.

In a video posted on Novartis Pharmaceuticals’ More To Psoriasis website, the 62-year-old singer talks about noticing rashes on her scalp.

“It would come and go and at first it was just my head,” said Lauper.

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“I didn’t realize it was psoriasis until I started to have these breakouts … and it started to spread.”

Lauper recalled that sweating on stage made the psoriasis worse and “my skin would shed.”

She admitted: “It wasn’t just uncomfortable, it was kind of unbearable.

“It’s a hard thing to live with.”

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Lauper said she has scars that make her feel like she can’t show her legs anymore.

“It makes you feel kind of depressed.”

Novartis partnered with the U.S.-based National Psoriasis Foundation for the public awareness campaign.

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