Influencer Madeleine Edwards on Understanding Her Eczema

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Madeleine Edwards , a Melbourne-based content creator, can't think of a time in her life when she didn't deal with eczema . "I remember my mom would put eczema cream on my body because I was too young to do it myself," she tells Popsugar.

In high school, she'd try to apply self-tanners like the rest of her classmates, only for her skin to look "like a disease" thanks to her eczema, she says. And it culminated in extreme flare-ups after graduation, when she grew more intolerant to triggers like dogs and cats — and the black mold in her apartment.

Thankfully, that was around the time that her online presence was taking off. She was already posting about acne and skin care, so when her eczema flared up badly, it just made sense to open up about th