What happened to Sarafina skin? She had brown skin when she was born and no white skin. She had vitiligo, a condition that not a lot of people know about. This is what vitilo means: Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease that spreads quickly and hurts the skin. Sarafina is a very popular movie, almost every body have seen the movie it was produced in 1992. Leleti Khumalo was the Protagonist of the movie, she was the girl named Sarafina in that movie. She used to be a beautiful dark skinned girl, but years after the movie, things changed, and she became white. Before you conclude or start to judge her about her skin, or start thinking she bleached, kindly read through to know what really happened. Leleti Khumalo was not always like this, she was born a brown skin girl, not white skinned. Her skin changed colour, due to the skin disease known as vitiligo, alot iof people do not know about this. What is Vitiligo? Vitiligo is seen as an auto-immune disease, it is not contagious or deadly, but sadly Vitiligo has no cure. It makes affected area change color, it makes it turn white, this can affect the hair, eyes, mouth, hands, and sometimes all over the body, for the rest of their life. Vitiligo happens when the cells that produces pigment just dies off, and stops production of pigment. When this happens, it starts turning your skin white gradually forever, it can not be treated. How It All Started; According to Leleti, when she was 18 years old, she started to see white spots on her leg. It wasn’t painful so she wasn’t really worried, she wasn’t quite familiar with the disease back then. The white patches kept on appearing in different places, and it kept expanding, she used make up to conceal it. She tried everything to get the rid of the white patches, she even tried drugs, nothing worked out, that was how it increased, later she finally decided to embrace her skin. She got married, she gave birth to triplets but one of the baby died, she has just 2 kids left now, see more of her pic