Tyne-Lexy Clarson has opened up about her secret battle with acne that she says left her depressed.
The Love Island 2017, 23, star suffered with acute acne breakouts for years and used heavy makeup to cover up her spots.
She would regularly have between 10 and 20 breakouts at any one time, including some cystic acne which would take weeks to go away
Doctors prescribed her the medicine Roaccutane to cure her acne but she says she suffered depression and extreme mood swings as a side effect.
Now Tyne-Lexy has tried a new natural supplement called G Herbal SKIN, which she says has given her clear skin for the first time in years.
She said: "I was really depressed about having acne and I would wear heaps of makeup to try to cover them up, which only made them worse.
"I decided to take Roaccutane to try to get rid of them but I suffered from extreme mood swings.
"I would go from fine one minute to severely depressed the next, I can totally understand why there are so many suicides linked to taking Roaccutane.
"It was putting me in such a bad state of mental health.
"It got to the point that I decided I'd rather have a spotty face than be in the mental state I was in whilst taking Roaccutane.
"My mum was really concerned about my mental wellbeing, and so I would only ever take one Roaccutane tablet a day, even though the doctor has prescribed three.
"I hate to think where I would be if I’d been taking three tablets."
She then started taking G Herbal SKIN and said her skin cleared up within weeks.
Tyne-Lexy added: "I saw some results withing a couple of weeks of taking G Herbal Skin and if I did have a breakouts, it would be gone within 24 hours, it was really fast how much it cleared up."
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