Former Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts backs our DyingForATan campaign
“I grew up with gossip mags commenting on how I looked. If I’d had social media as well, it scares me to think about how I would have coped and what my mental health would have been like. Anyone can go on to your profile and say something horrible about you. There’s so much abuse.”Credit: Backgrid. One commenter said: “That girl really need some sun on her skin, she must have a vitamin D deficiency being that pale [sic].
When I look back at photos, I see someone who was trying her best to fit in and avoid the negativity. I was trying so hard not to be judged.”was 18 and got so sunburnt on a holiday to Rhodes that she lay in bed crying in agony. “I fell asleep in the sun,” she says. “I swapped gossip mags for fashion ones,” she says. “There was a lot more diversity – they weren’t the same copycat images I’d seen growing up. I loved looking at Vivienne Westwood campaigns. She used androgynous models and I felt able to identify with a few of those.
Ten years ago Nicola worked with then health secretary Andy Burnham and Cancer Research UK to change the law so that under-18s were no longer allowed to useBut although the law was passed, a new survey reveals that 90% of dermatologists believe they should be banned completely in the UK. Kids as young as EIGHT are using sunbeds, with seemingly little understanding they are playing Russian Roulette with their health.
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