Kelly Rowland Opens Up About Eczema Struggles

InnovationHealthcareKelly Rowland Opens Up About Eczema StrugglesByBruce Y. Lee,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Y. Lee, M.D., MBA, covers health, medicine, wellness and scienceFollow AuthorJun 14, 2026, 01:12pm EDTKelly Rowland, seen here at the Black Women in Music Dinner on June 12, 2026 in Los Angeles, California, has long had to manage her eczema. (Photo by Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)Getty ImagesGrammy-winning singer songwriter, actress and Destiny’s Child alum Kelly Rowland scored a hit with David Guetta in “When Love Takes Over” in 2010. But what about when eczema takes over? Well that can be quite a “Dilemna,” to borrow the name o another Rowland hit in 2002 with Nelly.How Rowland Was Diagnosed With EczemaRowland recently talked to me about her eczema diagnosis and the flare ups that have occurred during rather inopportune times—if you consider during a live stage performance, for example, to be an inopportune time. “My diagnosis came about when after I had my first son Titan,” Rowland recalled. “I had all these different flare ups, which I thought were rashes at the time. So although I was scratching, I was thinking in my head that I was spreading whatever rash it was all over my body.” The identity of the rash wasn’t clear at the time. In other words, the rash was kind of going “say my name, say my name” without Rowland knowing what it was.But then Rowland got some “Motivation” to make a rash judgment. “I remember going to get a facial after I had my son, and I just asked my aesthetician, Shani Darden, about it,” Rowland explained. Darden pointed out that Rowland had eczema and "literally sent me to a derm.” That was about 11 years ago. Once Rowland got to a dermatologist where she was officially diagnosed with eczema, “I realized that I’d always suffered from it,” said Rowland. She realized that she had suffered flare-ups her her legs, elbows, neck, back, eyes, nose and other places. Sh...