Severe Acne Made Me Feel Unworthy Of Love | Shake My Beauty

A WOMAN with severe acne felt that she wasn’t “worthy of love” because of her skin. Madeline Roberts, 25, has suffered with skin problems since she was a teenager. When her acne turned severely cystic at the age of 14, she became insecure about the way she looked and stopped participating in beauty pageants because she didn’t feel “beautiful” anymore. Madeline told Barcroft TV: “At my lowest point, I felt like I would never have the skin that I want.” Trusting that someone would see past her skin in a romantic relationship became difficult for Madeline and she was “afraid to date”. Madeline is now married to Trevor after they met through friends at their church in Utah and “instantly clicked”. She now feels accepted by her husband, but when they were first dating her insecurities made her anxious that he would leave her. “I was afraid that he would think I had catfished him”, Madeline said. But for Trevor, her skin was never an issue. He told Barcroft TV: “It’s kind of floored me because that wasn't even on my radar.” But Madeline eventually realised that it was her own anxieties that were getting in the way of their relationship. She said: “I gained true confidence because he showed me that he doesn't love me because I have great skin, he loves me because of my personality and my heart.” In Barcroft TV’s film, Madeline goes to her church, leading worship and singing in front of the congregation for the first time without makeup. Coming off stage Madeline said she found the experience “freeing”.