8 Celebrities With Eczema Share Their Tips For Managing the Chronic Skin Condition

Kerry Washington, 48

Kerry Washington, 48, was diagnosed with eczema at a young age, which meant she was “in and out of dermatologists’ offices my whole life,” she told Today in 2023. She’s long been open about the products she uses to manage her sensitive skin, including hyaluronic acid (per a 2023 interview with Yahoo! Life), which the Scandal star said “truly transformed the way that I’m able to care for my skin and how my skin looks and feels.” She also manages stress — a known eczema trigger — and prioritizes sleep to take care of her skin health. “For me, it’s not just about looking cute. It’s also really about being able to have skin that’s healthy and not too itchy and cracks, and all that stuff that happens with eczema,” Washington told Vogue in 2020.

Tia Mowry, 47

Tia Mowry’s journey to an eczema diagnosis was far from straightforward. “I was misdiagnosed, and I had suffered for years, ever since I was a child,” Mowry, 47, told SheKnows in 2024. It took repeatedly advocating for herself for Mowry to get a diagnosis and the answers she needed. “Even if I was being dismissed, which unfortunately happens with a lot of women of color, when we tend to go down this path, I didn’t give up,” Mowry recalled.

But even once she was diagnosed, Mowry struggled to find support, telling People that she “felt alone” because she didn’t know any other person of color going through the same thing. The Sister, Sister star added that her fame added an additional layer of difficulty. “It was overwhelming, especially being in the public eye, like how do you deal with this?” she told the publication in 2021. Still, Mowry’s experience empowered her to stand up for herself to find the help she needed. “The advice that I could give is take action, ask questions, and understand and know that there are options out there, there are resources out there,” she told SheKnows.

Jessica Simpson, 45

Jessica Simpson, 45, has struggled with eczema since she was a child. In a 2020 interview with People, the pop star and shoe mogul recalled putting on her letterman jacket after cheerleading as a teenager “because people would hug me and be like, ‘What is that on your arm?'” she remembered. “And I’m just like, ‘Ah, it’s the weather. It’s Texas. It’s a heat rash.'” Her eczema symptoms cleared for a while, but flared with a vengeance after she gave birth to her third child, Birdie Mae. “After I had Birdie, I had an eczema flare that was a lot more intense than I had ever experienced before,” she told the publication.

Simpson recalled that her then-husband, Eric Johnson, took a few pictures of her that she forebad him to send to anybody, saying “I cannot believe the bumps on my arms.” After calling her doctor for advice, Simpson started taking Eucrisa, a topical eczema treatment she’s now a spokesperson for. “In two weeks it worked incredibly,” she said. “I used it for three months and now I’ve noticed here and there I’ll have a flare up and I’ll just put Eucrisa on for a week or two and it will be gone.”

Amanda Seyfried, 39

If you get eczema flare-ups on your face, you know it’s not always easy to head into the world without a little cover-up or foundation. That’s why Amanda Seyfried, 39, was praised in 2025 when she appeared in a Vogue Beauty Secrets video showing off a bare-faced look, with left her eczema and perioral dermatitis on display. “You might be thinking: ‘What’s that on her face?’” Seyfried said in the video. “That’s my eczema, and I, too, suffer from perioral dermatitis.”

Seyfried recalled “developing a rash” at age 19, which led her to learn “about a lot of medicated products. I learned a lot about just products in general from my dermatologist at the time.” As Seyfried washed her face in the video, she said her face wash made her rash “scream,” adding, “But that’s OK, because I’m gonna cover it, so I can go out in public.”

The actress continued, “It’s funny how eczema makes you feel.” She said that her skin has “gotten better over the years,” but noted that she was adding “this medicated cream for this little cutie mustache.” At the end of the video, she reflected on her look, saying “I don’t need to get rid of all the redness — I wouldn’t know how to even try. This is not a red carpet look. This is me doing my makeup to look pretty and clean.”

Kelly Rowland, 44

Kelly Rowland, 44, didn’t have any eczema symptoms until she gave birth to her oldest son, Titan. “I started to get it up my back and I asked my doctor, ‘Why is this happening to me?'” she said in a 2022 interview with Allure. Her doctor explained it as “a hormonal stress thing.”

Rowland turned to her community for help with managing her symptoms. A fellow mom recommended she try emu oil on her younger son, Noah, who also has eczema, and Rowland’s nanny applied it in a way that the Destiny’s Child alum had to try for herself as well. “My nanny took some of the smaller socks Noah had grown out of and cut them in half,” she explained. “She put them over his little patches behind his leg. It’s a super moisturizing treatment, so I tried it myself.” Rowland tried the strategy around her knees and elbows and found that it helped. “The moisture just kind of locks in there,” she explained. “It’s awesome.”

Katie Couric, 68

Katie Couric, 68, is another star who found her childhood eczema returning as she aged. “I’ve had eczema ever since I was a little girl, and as I’ve gotten older, it’s started to flare up again,” the journalist wrote on Instagram in 2023, adding that she also struggles with allergic contact dermatitis. “Safe to say, I have to be careful about what I put on my face,” she explains. Couric went on to credit the doctor and skincare brand Cheryl Lee MD for helping her with her symptoms. “Her products have really helped,” Couric wrote.

Kristen Bell, 45

Kristen Bell’s, 45, childhood eczema returned with a vengeance at age 39, leading to a red, itchy rash across her whole body. Only the actress’ face was left clear, she told Women’s Health in 2019. “I’m itching from head to toe,” she told the publication. “About six months ago, I started just having severe eczema in my armpits. I was like, ‘Great, my hormones changed. Now I’ve got to deal with it again.'”

The rash initially started in her armpits, leading Bell to believe that it was a reaction to her deodorant. When she woke up to find the rash spreading across the rest of her body, she knew it was something more serious and made an appointment with her doctor. “I wanted to know what caused it,” she explained. At the time of the interview, Bell was experimenting with her diet to see if different eating habits would help her flare-up. “We’re trying to do no gluten, no grains, no lectins, no nightshades, no dairy,” she said, noting that the rash was improving but not totally gone. “I’m still crazy itchy, and when I get hot it gets even itchier.”

Diana Taurasi, 43

Diana Taurasi’s eczema symptoms took a turn for the worse right when her career started to take off as a star basketball player at UConn. “It was something that would affect me directly, every single day,” the WNBA veteran, 43, told SheKnows in 2024. “Instead of focusing on the court, I was focusing on my outbreaks.” Her itchy red skin felt “unbearable” until she began using the injectable biologic medicine Dupixent. Now partnering with the pharmaceutical company that produces the drug, Taurasi calls her experience with it “a success story.” She explains, “It’s part of me not only feeling good about myself, but having clear skin and being able to be confident going into my workplace.”