'Skin condition turned me white'

A woman with a skin problem called vitiligo, the same condition Michael Jackson claimed to have, says she wants to raise awareness of the condition. The pigment in 23-year-old fashion designer Darcel De Vlugt's skin started changing colour when she was five. She says she had to put up with schoolground taunts after developing white spots all over her body and describes some of the bizarre treatments she was prescribed to try to stop it.

Darcel De Vlugt started turning white when she was five years old

Explain what vitiligo is, how you get it and how it affects you?

How did it start developing in you?

How did you feel when all this started happening?

Darcel said kids taunted her at school after she started changing colour

That must have been really hard?

What sort of treatment have you had over the years?