15 Celebrities Who Are Normalizing Acne

In October 2023, Brown shared a carousel of images on Instagram, starting with a full-glam selfie. However, the next photo in the slideshow was a makeup-free snap of her face with acne. In the caption, she wrote "@florencebymills send help!" tagging her skin-care brand, Florence by Mills.

In an interview with POPSUGAR, Chamberlain talked about her tumultuous journey with acne. Having come out on the other side of it, she said, "I fully understand that no matter what anybody says it's really, really tough and there's nothing that anybody can say or do to make it any easier. It would be, in a way, punching my younger self in the face to be like, 'Oh, having acne, well, it goes away one day. You'll be OK.' No, it's one of the most difficult things I've personally ever dealt with self-esteem-wise and just in general, in life."

She added: "That journey was so important because it taught me how to feel comfortable within myself with good or bad skin. Once you either grow out of your acne or you find a way to remedy it, no matter what your journey ends up being, there's something so empowering about coming out the other side. People who have dealt with acne can f*cking do anything."

Palmer has given her followers a close-up look at her journey with PCOS-related acne. On Instagram, she said, "Poly Cystic Ovarian syndrome has been attacking me from the inside out my entire life and I had no idea. My acne has been so bad that people in my field offered to pay for me to get it fixed. I tried EVERYTHING. I did Accutane TWICE."

After detailing the specifics of her own diagnosis, Palmer said, "To all the people struggling with this please know you're not alone and that you are still so f*cking fine! MY ACNE AINT NEVER STOPPED ME. But we don't have accept this. Now I can really help KEKE! And I love her so it's ON."

Hale loves to experiment with her hair and makeup, but she's not immune to pimples. She revealed in an interview with Byrdie, "The day I turned 21, my skin just went nuts."

"Euphoria" follows a group of teenagers in high school, which is why when Ferreira showed up to set one day with a few pimples, the producers decided to emphasize it.

"For the first few episodes, I was breaking out — I usually break out on my cheek in a very specific area — but nobody did anything specifically to get rid of pimples," Ferreira told POPSUGAR in an interview. "We were like, 'We're playing teenagers, teenagers break out, what's the big deal? [The show's makeup artists] would actually add red to it to make it more textured because they wanted to really show it. For three episodes, I had my temples accentuated, with a little more red gooeyness to it, you know? We wanted it to be realistic even within this unrealistic space of a really cool teen fiction show. It was all grounded in so much reality."

Hill often shares glimpses into her off-duty model life on Instagram with her followers, including makeup-free selfies. "I struggle with acne and I've struggled for a long time, probably since I was 15, because of makeup, travel, and hormones," she told Allure in an interview.

Smollett is years out of her acne journey now, but she told POPSUGAR in an interview, "I was shooting "Friday Night Lights" in Austin, and with the humidity, the great Texas food, the hormones, and the stress of me planning a wedding, my skin was freaking out."

Perry prides herself on being an open book, whether it's about body hair, acne, or her relationship with makeup as a whole. "I have acne scars," she told Cosmopolitan. "I'm self-conscious about that."