05 August 2025
According to the World Health Organization, at least 2.2 billion people around the world have a near or distance vision impairment. Statistically, this means there are quite a few blind celebrities. Here are a few famous people who are blind or have low vision:
Lachi is a singer-songwriter, touring performer, producer, actress, author, disability advocate, and cultural activist. As a blind performer, Lachi speaks and performs regularly at Disability Pride events and promotes disability representation and inclusion in media. She has worked closely with the organization Divas with Disabilities. In 2020, the New York Times listed Lachi in an article on 28 ways to learn about disability culture. Lachi has established herself as a disability advocate in the music industry, and has spoken and performed at the White House, the United Nations, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and the BBC. Additionally, Lachi founded Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities (RAMPD), which partnered with the Recording Academy to help make the Grammy Awards more accessible through sign language interpreters, live captioning, audio description, and ramps on the red carpet.
Musician Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes was born with retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer that caused partial blindness in her left eye. Her sister Jaime died from the same condition when Howard was eight, and in 2019, Howard released her debut solo album, Jaime, dedicated to her sister.
In 2011, actress Mila Kunis shared that she was “blind in one eye for many years, and nobody knew.” Though Kunis is no longer blind following corrective surgery, she experienced chronic iritis, an inflammation of the iris, for years. As a result, she experienced low vision and developed a cataract. Kunis also has heterochromia iridum, a condition in which the irises are different colors.
Source: 3 Play Media
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