Saw this article today and had to post it. How ridiculous? I think someone should take up donations for her mental treatment, and future skin cancer treatments as well. Tanning booth mom calls arrest for taking daughter, 5, a misunderstanding: Love the mugshot: N.J. Mom Busted For Taking Girl In Tanning Booth | The Smoking Gun U.S. News - New Jersey tanning mom denies charges of child endangerment
She is definitely the darkest--by a long shot--Caucasian I have ever seen. Most absolutely cannot get that dark no matter how much they tan. She has irrevocably destroyed her skin and it is certainly a wrinkled mess now.
To those that might know more about disorders - does this sound like OCD? I think of the ending of The Aviator when DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes has an episode of OCD
If the entire case is built off what her daughter told her friends, that's pretty flimsy. Added to the fact that the daughter, from the video, is a redhead and (like most redheads I've met) likely burns easily, it's pretty easy to believe that it all happened as the family claims - the daughter was outside the booth, and simply got burned from the sunny, hot day. Besides, do we really want to take the mother away sooner than her tanning habits will anyways?
those actually made me laugh, good job. tanning is something i'll never understand, i have red hair and burn within 5 mins of being outside. i'm pretty much destined for melanoma.
"tanorexia" - perfect description of this disorder. The Body Odd - What caused the N.J. tanning mom's leathery look?
....and he died early because he did not get ENOUGH sun How did Mozart die? We now know the score - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com
Tanned skin was viewed negatively in 1900 - only the working class had tans. Post WWII tans were in as being a sign of the leisure class. People in the 1950s and 1960s worked on their tans. We now know there is no safe tan, it is a sign of premature aging.
