Bride-to-be Develops Vitiligo (skin Disorder) Months Before Her Wedding (Photos)

A beautiful young woman has narrated the

battle she fought after developing vitiligo

months before her wedding.

A bride was left in tears after developing

vitiligo months before her wedding. The

young woman revealed that the condition

was triggered by the stress of planning her

big day, according to Dailymail.

The woman identified as Kandice Benford,

32, 'freaked out' when white blotches

began to spread over her body shortly

before she was due to walk down the aisle.

The bride, of Terry, Mississippi, thinks the

condition, which causes patches of skin lose their pigment, may have been triggered by the anxiety of fine-tuning the details of the wedding.

Kandice first noticed white spots on her

hands when she was at college in her late

teens. 'I had a spot here and there and I had heard about vitiligo so I knew what it was but I didn't really care about it at the time,' she said.

It was only when she hit 30 in 2015 — less than a year before she was due to tie the

knot with her partner, Elliott Benford — that the disease spread rapidly.

Kandice's husband-to-be, who is now 30,

was also sick at the time. The bride was

juggling work and wedding planning while

worrying about his health.

Vitiligo is widely believed to be an

autoimmune disorder and though its exact

cause isn't known, stress and emotional

trauma can exacerbate the symptoms.

Over the course of a year, the white spots

spread and now they cover her entire body.

For her wedding day, the bride desperately

tried to cover the spots with make-up at

first.