Woman With Skin Cancer Posts Graphic Selfie to Warn Against Tanning

Most girls love the gorgeous bronze glow and Tawny Willoughby was one of those girls, until she was diagnosed with skin cancer when she was just 21.

Now 27, she has been diagnosed with carcinoma five times, as well as squamouse cell carcinoma once.

She has to make six-monthly trips to the dermatologist with a skin cancer removed almost every visit.

In April she shared a photo of herself while she was undergoing a round of skin cancer treatment as a warning to people about the dangers of tanning beds.

“If anyone needs a little motivation to not lay in the tanning bed and sun here ya go! This is what skin cancer treatment can look like.”

Willoughby says that she used to do indoor tanning a lot in high school: “I probably laid an average of 4-5 times a week,” she says. As the mother of a 2-year-old, she writes that the issue of tanning is even more serious to her now: “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.”