Gaping holes in noses and cheeks, dark scabs on faces, and bloody gashes all over the bodies are usually seen from horror films.
But those wounds can be caused by skin cancer which can develop after using sunbeds.
In the UK, around 16,000 new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed every year. This number had increased four times since the 1970s when cheap foreign travel took off and sunbed salons started opening all over the country.
Since 2010, it has been illegal for people under 18 to use sunbeds in the UK. But even when there were no laws about its use, many women are now paying the price for using sunbeds when they were teens.
Three women revealed the terrible price they have paid just to achieve that golden glow.
29-year-old Tawny Willoughby developed lesions after using tanning beds 5 times a week. The mother-of-one wrote on Facebook: “This is what skin-cancer treatment can look like
“If anyone needs a little motivation to not lay in the tanning bed and sun here ya go!
“Wear sunscreen and get a spray tan. Learn from other people’s mistakes. Don’t let tanning prevent you from seeing your children grow up. That’s my biggest fear now that I have a two-year-old little boy of my own.”
Jade Thrasher also started using sunbeds when she was a teen, having three sessions a week for 11 years.
In 2014, she noticed a spot on her nose and biopsies revealed she had skin cancer at only 24 years old. Surgeons cut it out and left her with a huge hole above her right nostril.
“I want teenagers to see the photo of the hole in my nose so that they know what could happen,” Jane expressed.
“I used to have a sunbed in my house, but I’ve thrown it in the trash. I didn’t want to sell it, because I didn’t want anybody else to go through what I went through.”
Kory Feltz from California started using sunbeds when she was a teen after being bullied for being pale. Within 14 years she developed numerous bouts of cancer.
“I knew it was bad when I noticed little mobility in my mouth while trying to ask the nurse if I looked like Kylie Jenner,” Kory said. “Her facial expression to that question led me to the conclusion that it wasn’t good.”
Lisa Pace, who also became addicted to tanning beds, said she bitterly regrets the decision after needing 86 surgeries to contain her skin cancer.
Scientists believe sunbed use can be linked to 900 deaths per year in Europe alone as it is thought to increase the risk of skin cancer by 16 to 20 percent.
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