The singer of 1979 and Bullet With Butterfly Wings shared pictures of the noticeable purple mark on his left hand and arm on social media.
“At the end of the day, it is about celebrating what makes us ‘us,'” he stated in the post, endorsing body positivity campaigns.
In addition, the 57-year-old shared a picture of model Carlotta Bertotti, who has a birthmark on her face, citing her as an example of someone “who has embraced her ‘difference’ with grace”.
Then he said, “I’ve tried my entire life to hide my “port wine” birthmarks because, as you can imagine, I was cruelly teased about them.”
To the extent that even those who have known me for ten years are taken aback when they eventually ‘get it’.
Good news for the day: I want to know that person and no one else, so I hope you may find peace with who you are, whatever that may be.”
The NHS and Great Ormond Street Hospital state that an aberrant growth of blood vessels in the skin is the origin of a birthmark known as a port wine stain.
