Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Britney Spears, Anastacia, Victoria Beckam, Tom Cruise...Unless a role in a movie or public appearance specifically asks for an untanned skin, almost every artist longs after a brown, bronzed skin, achieved either with a self tanning product or by indoor sessions. "Smart actors don't sit in the sun," says JoAnna Connell, an expert on sprays, liquids, and creams that tan without sunshine. The truth is that each celebrity has a private sunless tanning story to tell. Bad things can happen to anyone and celebrities make no exception. They get into trouble like anybody else. Sometimes even worse.
Victoria Beckam — Outwitted by Mistake
Former Spice girl has awful memories from her personal self-tanning history. During one of her weekly self-tanning sessions at her home in Hertfordshire, England, a clumsy beautician forgot to clean the spray gun's tubes properly. So, all she got from her self tanning spray was toxic fumes, instead of glowing bronze. Wearing just... underwear, the wife of soccer superstar David Beckham was sprayed with chemicals and no color. Victoria lost her conscience and fell to the ground. It was a disagreeable and dangerous moment, since those chemicals were spread on her skin, while the room was filled with a nasty smell.
Pamela Anderson: an “X-files” recollection
Pamela Anderson had a different and funny experience, quoted by Famous People Magazine. Being on a tanning bed at her local salon, she revealed a near-death experience that "changed her life forever", she said. "I remember seeing a bright white light and heard voices," she reports. Accoding to her statements, she felt like she still had important work to do on earth...."Soon, I opened my eyes and realized I wasn't dead. I had just fallen asleep on a tanning bed at my local salon." , Pamela Anderson confessed to the popular magazine.
George Hamilton, Hollywood sun tan legend, gave it up
No one has ever saw him untanned. George Hamilton was the Hollywood suntan legend. He finally gave up his addiction to tan, limiting his sun exposure. "It's so bad for skin!", Hamilton confessed. Instead, he is using an auto bronzer, to maintain his bronzed look.
Josie Bissett — learning from others' pain
Josie Bisset (Jane from the "Melrose Place" series) admits that she has always been careful about her skin while self tanning. She recalls her childhood and teen-age spent in Seattle where sun was scarce and she was obsessed with getting tanned. But since her brother-in-law developed melanoma, she got extremely vigilant. Being so close to this was scary,
confessed Bissett. I think with age you get wiser and understand the importance of taking care of your skin.
Fortunately, her brother-in-law recovered, but Josie is still cautious.
Celebrity allegations are extremely influential to a vast majority of people. In most cases, people would rather pay attention to what actors have to say than to what dermatologists have to warn. Speaking out about their negative experiences, actors and singers raise people's awareness about taking care of their skin while sunless tanning.