‘It stings to put my hand under the tap’: Former sunbed user warns of tanning dangers Credit: ITV / Good Morning Britain
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00:00I was definitely doing it three times a week at least, maybe 20 minutes.
00:05But no, that wasn't every week, but a good lot of weeks, right?
00:08Because given that I'm so fair-skinned, it took a lot for my skin to tan.
00:14So I just felt I wasn't getting tanned enough or quickly enough.
00:18Going forward to where I am now, I do regret having used it so much over the time.
00:27As you can see here, my hands and my chest in particular.
00:33And it does get a lot of comments.
00:37And people think that it's freckles, and it's not.
00:42Now, I was with my dermatologist two weeks ago, and he did the cryo treatment on it.
00:50And it can be very sensitive because the skin blisters.
00:55Actually, I could hardly even put my hands under the tap because it was stinging so much.