It was when she started thinking about having a baby in early 2019 and went off both pills, her skin was back to its worst. “My skin went nuts,” Nesvig says. “Going off those two pills, like it was an immediate response from my skin.” That went on for about a year, and in the meantime, she tried to make the best of it.
She opened up about her skin for the first time on Instagram to a flood of messages—including one from esthetician Renée Rouleau, whose support and products helped calm Nesvig’s acne. During a video introduction for a job she was applying to, she acknowledged a particularly bad breakout instead of hiding it. “I was like, Either they’re going to really like this and give me a job because I’m being really honest, or they’re gonna be like, ‘That girl’s weird.’” She got the job.
But still, it was hard, especially being so close to the beauty industry, both for work and pleasure. “When my skin was so bad, I was just kind of lost,” she says. “I mean, even if you say you don’t care about how you look, you still do. And so it really took a ding on my confidence. Everyone has a product [suggestion]. I know people are trying to help, but it feels really lonely. All of these people have great skin. They have no idea what I’m going through right now. And it feels like something you shouldn’t be concerned about; it feels so shallow. I would cry about my skin all the time because it was just out of my control. I would go to the derm and she would be like, ‘There’s nothing we can really do because it is hormonal, unless you get pregnant or go back on those meds.’ Like: ‘This is what your skin will be like until things even out.’”
As it turns out, Nesvig did get pregnant in the spring of 2020, and her skin instantly cleared up. Her son, Julian, just turned one, and her skin is still the clearest it’s been in a decade. “People told me when you quit breastfeeding, your skin can go nuts again, because your hormones change again. So I was terrified of that,” she says. “I quit nursing in August, and nothing. I have no issues with my skin right now, but I know it’s going to come back at some point. I’m not on birth control, not on any meds. And my skin is good, which is crazy to me.”
“My skin sucked,” she continues. “I was ashamed of it. But my skin really sucked and probably will suck again. Hormonal acne is really frustrating because you can’t control it. If that’s part of your genetic makeup, then that’s it—there’s no cure. Like I said, there’s literally the only thing that worked for me is I got pregnant. And you can’t prescribe that to somebody if they’re not ready for it. Now that everything is clear, having a couple years of separation has been good. Also, since giving brith, I’m like, Yeah, I don’t really give a fuck anymore.”
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