Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan on his port-wine birthmarks for body positivity and “celebrating what makes us ‘us'”
nme.comSmashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan has opened up about his port-wine birthmarks on social media in a statement of body positivity.The ‘1979’ hitmaker took to his official Instagram page to share a photo of himself sporting a purple hoodie showing off his large birthmarks that span across large parts of his left arm.
Corgan previously showed off his birthmarks on the cover of his 2005 debut solo album ‘TheFutureEmbrace’.“I’m a fan of body positivity movements because at the end of the day it is about celebrating what makes us ‘us’,” began the caption of his post.
He also included a photo of model Carlotta Bertotti who has her own birthmark across her face and described her as a “beautiful young woman (@carlotta_bertotti ) with a birthmark who has embraced her ‘difference’ with grace.”A post shared by William Patrick Corgan (@billycorgan)Corgan went on to share that for a big part of his life, he went on to hide his port-wine birthmarks as he was teased “unmercifully” about them when he was a kid.
He added that he was good at hiding them sharing that “people who have known me for a decade are shocked when they finally ‘see it’.”He continued: “Even now strangers will stop me on the street not because they recognize me but because they think something is wrong with me that requires medical attention.Plus the random questions: Is that a burn?
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