Earlier this week, 57-year-old presenter Ulrika Jonsson responded to negative comments about how “old and over-tanned” she looked when she appeared on the Spencer Matthews Untapped podcast to discuss her sobriety.
Whoa! was my first reaction when I saw the photo of her deep tan and wrinkled skin, but it also brought back memories of my own tanning obsession.
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Cheap foreign holidays had just started to become popular, and my family was able to ditch our usual rain-sodden week in the Lake District for the beaches of Southern Italy. Suddenly, we were plunged into a world where the temperature reached 37 °C. I was hooked. My sisters and I would spend all day glued to our sun loungers.
And it didn’t stop there. In the late 90s, when the skin cancer scares began and everybody embraced the milk-bottle look, I carried on sunbathing with gusto. The fact that I was working on a beauty magazine and received daily press releases on the dangers of the sun did nothing to curb my enthusiasm. It was around this time that the term ‘tanorexia’ was first coined.
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There is nothing more fulfilling than lying in a bikini on a sun lounger, drinking in that glorious warmth. And whilst we all know there is no such thing as a healthy tan, it is still the ultimate pick-me-up and feel-good factor. The thrill of seeing bright white tan lines against your bronzed body.
Yet, in my case, it has taken getting skin cancer in my sixties to finally throw away my bottle of tanning lotion and step into the shade.
But then three months later, in June 2023, on a holiday in Southern Italy, I caught sight of myself in a mirror and noticed it had got bigger with a raised, crater-like edge and a crusty hollow. While I resisted the urge to Google it, it played on my thoughts and back home a few days later, I had a telephone consultation with my GP and was sent to a dermatologist.
While most people probably associate skin cancer with deadly malignant melanoma, which kills more than 2,000 people a year in the UK, there was an element of good news to my diagnosis.
Even when knowing about the dangers of the sun, Mulvey’s enthusiasm for a tan continuedIn spite of all my tanning I never imagined it would happen to me. The British Association of Dermatology says skin cancer cases in England rose from 177,677 in 2013 to 224,092 in 2019, a 26 per cent increase in just six years.
“Its crucial to get basal cell carcinomas seen to early,” warns Dr Cherry Armstrong, dermatologist and Medical Director at No. 23 Skin clinic, London, “while BCC’s are the least aggressive form of skin cancer, if left too long or neglected over time, they can cause significant local invasion into skin, cartilage, bone and deeper tissues.”
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It is equally important to check for other changes in your skin, non-healing skin lesions, skin lesions which bleed with minimal trauma. Melanomas account for approximately 4-5 per cent of all skin cancers. The rest comprise basal cell carcinoma, which accounts for 75 per cent of cases, and squamous cell carcinomas (SCC), about 15 per cent.
So what does she advise? “Pay special attention to any marks, in particular to skin areas that are exposed and burn easily such as ears, around the eyes chest and the nose.”
Nowadays, I have an all-over skin check once a year. This is usually only done privately and is expensive at around £150, but to me it could be a lifesaver.
When I go on my annual holiday to Italy this summer with my friends, not only will I be sitting under the shade, I’ll be wearing a wide-brimmed sun hat and nagging my friends to factor up.
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