From a privileged European background, Karin Holstein develops psoriasis as a child. While studying in Paris, she meets Jean-Louis, a plastic surgeon thirty years her senior, with whom she falls deeply in love. He helps to shape her modeling career. Although he is more important to her than any career she rearranges her life to please him until tragedy ends their relationship. Her modelling career takes over her life as she becomes an international cover girl, in spite of her disfiguring skin disease. She manages to hide her psoriasis under the guise of being eccentric, while gracing the covers of magazines and being featured in Harper's 19, Vogue, and Elle as well as doing ads and TV spots. We follow her through the height of her career; the jet-set life in Europe, between Paris, London, Monte Carlo, St. Tropez, and St. Moritz; a disastrous marriage; her breakdown; and a new life in the USA. In spite of years of hardship and developing arthritis, she now faces life through her newfound faith and actively supports the National Psoriasis Foundation and the Arthritis Foundation. Karin's story ends in an amazing encounter with Jean-Louis, the man who had brought so much pain to her life years before.
