Seal’s deep voice made him famous, but his scars made his face famous. The trait has accompanied him since he burst onto the music scene in the early ’90s. While they may look like they were caused by external factors, the origins of the lesions were actually inside. Seal suffers from discoid lupus erythematosus, a type of lupus that often affects the skin above the neck, according to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology. “My lupus first arrived when I was 21,” he told Yahoo. “It’s not as serious as systemic [lupus], which affects the organs.”
After suffering with the rashes for some years, Seal sought medical attention in his early career and promptly received treatment. “The lupus went, but it left me with scars – which I am quite proud of, actually, because they became a bit of a trademark,” he wrote in a 2011 essay for The Guardian. Seal has one of three different types of lupus that affect the skin, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. While he initially struggled with his new face, Seal learned to accept it. “Something that had kind of been initially traumatizing turned out to be something that has made me instantly recognizable,” he told Yahoo.
His distinctive look has also given Seal an opportunity to teach his kids a lesson or two — and have fun with it. “I always call the marks on my face my battle scars,” he wrote in The Guardian essay. “I tell my children I sustained them when I was fighting to defeat evil demons.”
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