Luis Mojica Rodriguez: The Empowerment Model Redefining Beauty Early Life and Childhood Challenges I was born in Puerto Rico in the 1980s with Congenital Melanocytic Naevus, a rare condition that doctors feared could turn cancerous. With limited treatment options on the island, my mother moved us to New York when I was ten months old.…
Hi, I’m Chantelle and I was born with Congenital Melanocytic Nevi in 1989. My Journey with CMN has had its up and down moments, as anyone with a lifelong condition will tell you. My mother was 17 when she had me and remembers me being rushed off to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit due to…
My name is Gemma. I grew up near Cambridge and, after more than ten years moving around the country for education and work, I’m now back there working as a doctor and researcher. Outside of work I love watching series, travelling, music, long talks with friends, and trying to keep my houseplants alive. I’m slightly…
My name is Steven Bouris. I am a Resilience and Self-Empowerment Motivational Speaker and Author. I was born in the 1980s with a large CMN on my forehead. My story is about the challenges I faced growing up with my birthmark, how I suppressed my emotions and felt shame which changed who I was as…
I was born in 1953, the youngest of four. My mother was two months from her 40th birthday. I was born with a CMN covering my neck, my shoulders, and the top half of my back. I also had a large mole on the inside of my thigh and a mole the size of a…
My Journey to Self-Acceptance: Embracing My Uniqueness By Naava Agnes, age 23 Growing up in a small village in Kampala, Uganda, I was born with a congenital melanocytic nevus (CMN) on my face. It was a constant reminder that I was different, and it seemed like the world was always staring back at me. People…
Hi, my name is Amy, and I was born with giant bathing trunk CMN along with hundreds of satellite moles. I’m now 32 but back when I was born in Adelaide, Australia my condition was very unknown, and it was difficult for my parents to find out much information about it. I spent the first…
I first discovered Caring Matters Now back in 2020. I will never forget that day. It was mid covid lockdown and I was getting breakfast ready for my son, who was 2 at the time. We had the radio on in the kitchen and they started talking about this charity called Caring Matters Now, I…
Hi. My name is Laura – I am 29 years old and I live in North East Scotland and I was born with CMN on my back (about the size of my mum’s hand at birth). Birth and family life. When I was born my mum remembers thinking that the doctors could have ‘broken the…
Our lovely new member Krishika shares her story below and aspires to “inspire others to love and accept what they are blessed with.” I was born in India, a land of multi-diverse cultured people. I come from a place where nevus owners are very rare so growing up with CMN was challenging both mentally and…
