Lili Reinhart Opens Up About the ’Shame’ She Felt with Acne and How It Inspired Skincare Line (Exclusive)

Lili Reinhart gets candid about her skin.

On Tuesday, Nov. 12, the 28-year-old actress spoke exclusively with PEOPLE at the launch of her skincare brand Personal Day and opened up about how it was partially inspired by the “shame” she felt about her acne.

“Having that ‘I feel out of control’ feeling can be incredibly isolating,” she tells PEOPLE. “And also, there’s a lot of shame associated with acne. I think when I was in middle school and high school, I didn’t have pimple marks so I didn’t have a path where I felt like, ‘Okay, I can hide this pimple.’ ”

“I just had to grin and bear it, and I don’t think it was good for my confidence,” Reinhart adds. “But now as an adult and when it happens, I think we live in a different world where it’s more accepting.”

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Lili Reinhart in a panel discussion on the Beauty Stage at Beautycon LA 2024.

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“People are walking around with stickers on their faces and they’re fine,” she continues. “I hope that teenagers dealing with acne feel like they’re in a world that’s a little more accepting just because when I was a kid, no one talked about it. Certainly, no celebrity has spoken about it.”

“I felt embarrassed,” she tells PEOPLE. “I felt like I had to hide. I still felt like I was somehow the only girl with acne in my circle.”

Reinhart went on to say that she still finds it difficult to be an actress with acne.

“It can still be isolating, but I’m like… I just want to continue the conversation and open up and invite more people who are out in the public to talk about it and continue to create that safe space,” she tells PEOPLE.

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Speaking about the origins of her skincare line, she reveals she had a “lightbulb moment” when she realized she couldn’t find acne products she could trust and “didn’t have bad ingredients in them”.

She tells PEOPLE that after researching the ingredients in the skin care products she was using at the time, she started “putting them in the freaking trash can” and giving them to friends who didn’t have acne.

“I basically just started looking for ingredients for my skin care,” says Reinhart. “There are ingredient checks online. Now we have an ingredient checker on personalday.com so you can look at your foundation, foundation or concealer, the ingredient list.”

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