Brooke Shields confesses to skin cancer scare
May 25, 2009 on 3:51 pm | In Actors, New York, News | No Comments
Actress Brooke Shields has revealed she had a recent skin cancer scare and blames it on years of sun worship as a teen.
The Lipstick Jungle star visited her doctor in New York after she was concerned about a spot that developed on her face.
“I had a spot on my face. The doctor scraped it and it turned out to be precancerous. I was scared,” Shields confessed.
The 43-year-old actress had the spot removed and is doing ‘fine’.
But she says the cancer scare should act as a warning to woman who ‘used to think it was the best thing in the world to be baking in the sun’.
And has warned anyone not to get involved in the sun-worship rituals that she did like: “Baby oil and tinfoil and lemon in your hair.
“All my girlfriends and I would go up on the roof in New York; we didn’t have to be at the beach,” said Shields who claims to have stopped actively sunbathing ten years ago.
“You think that because you’re not in the sun anymore, it’s all in the past. And then something like that crops up and you’re made aware of how dangerous it really can be.”