Im addicted to tanning beds haters say Ive been cremated but I cant stop

She’s got a dark dependency. Like fresh air and clean water, tanning beds have become an everyday necessity for Megan Blain. And despite her high-risk of developing skin cancer from the ultraviolet rays, the 18-year-old student refuses to forgo her faux glow. “I want to stop one day but I can’t ever imagine myself not going on the sun beds,” Blain, a content creator from the UK, explained on TikTok, per Kennedy News. “I’ve noticed a patch on my skin which keeps changing size,” she said before admitting her reluctance to go to the doctor.“For me not to be worried about potentially having melanoma[…]and still abuse the sun beds, [it’s] made me realize this is an addiction.”“I just never think I’m dark enough.”However, an undying desire to get darker can cause a near-death experience. Edith Eagle, a 47-year-old stepmother of four, was “minutes” away from dying after snorting the $32 “Barbie Drug” nasal spray tanner, Melanotan. “I could’ve died that day,” said the Gen Xer. “Please don’t make the same mistake as me.”But it seems younger folks, like Blain, would rather “die hot than live ugly.” So, they regularly slink into tanning beds to come out toasted to perfection, regardless of the potentially fatal consequences. In fact, Gen Zs have been blamed for inciting the tanning craze in NYC. “We’re seeing younger and younger people,” Win Gruber, owner of Upper East Side Tan previously told The Post.Margarita Anconova, owner of Portofino Murray Hill Sun Center, added, “Gen Z, they see their posts on social media of people being tan, and they want to be tan.

Everyone wants to be beautiful.”Fionnghuala Maguire’s attempt at enhancing her beauty on a sun bed nearly placed the millennial mom on a deathbed. In 2020, she was diagnosed with Stage 1 melanoma, brought on by her browning obsession. “My mom was diagnosed with skin cancer and had to have a couple of tumors removed,” said Maguire, 35, who�...