Lee Thomas' skin is betraying him.His once brown, even complexion is now mottled with pale patches around his eyes and mouth, along his nose and on his ears; his arms, shoulders and chest are speckled and blotched.
"I'm a black man turning white on television and people can see it," says Thomas, an anchor and entertainment reporter for the local Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate. "If you've watched me over the years, you've seen my hands completely change from brown to white."
Thomas has vitiligo, a disorder in which pigment-making cells are destroyed. White patches appear on different parts of the body, tissues in the mouth and nose, and the retina.
He uses a combination of creams and makeup to cover the growing patches of skin — which he calls devoid of color — on his face, hands and arms. Viewers, co-workers and, for years, his basketball buddies, were none the wiser.
Even though Thomas uses makeup to conceal his skin discoloration, he realized the vitiligo was becoming more obvious when he couldn't hide it from a preschooler during a story about a playground. His two-toned hands frightened the girl, who began to cry.
1 comment:
Mr Lee is very brave man, He got this status no doubt by his work hard.
But here is the thing is different on the internet that people use the vitiligo of
Lee for the intertainment. There are number of blogs and post on the MJ and Lee in which
auhtors put the pictures of their with white patches on their skin. And the porpuse of
such people is to prove that they had been suffering from the vitiligo. Their criticize
is not right because according to some authorize site of vitiligo
1 to 2 million of populations is suffering from the vitiligo only in US, not only the two poor supper stars thanks.
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