This girl uses her vitiligo to create body positive works of ART
Ash Soto is a Florida-based artist who uses her own body as a canvas.
The reason for her artistic endeavours? The fact that she has vitiligo, for which she was plagued by bullies her entire life.
Now Ash is reclaiming her body for herself by displaying it in an array of creative ways, all glorifying her vitiligo. And she looks amazing doing it.
The body-positive Floridian is working on loving her speckled skin, and her 92,500 followers love it too.
"They say your body is a canvas, I'm just painted differently," she captioned a post about her skin on Insta.
"Finally at a point in my life where I can say I love the skin I'm in. It's a learning experience each day but I'm getting there."
Outlining her vitiligo patches is Ash's speciality.
By doing so, the body-positivity activist creates an effect that resembles a world map.
"When my vitiligo first started spreading and that's when the jokes started which caused me to never wear shorts or short sleeves again," she captioned another shot, showing her skin before and after her vitilligo spread.
"I've been called cow, I even was once told I had Michael Jackson syndrome."
"How can an innocent girl trying to find herself take that?"
We applaud Ash for standing up against those who previously made fun of her and for encouraging people to embrace them selves and the skin they're in.
That's definitely a body positive message we can get behind.
