It all started with a middle school dance for sophomore Moe Manning. The Scottsdale, Ariz. native wanted to be tan for the event.

“I wasn’t 16 yet and lied about my age at the tanning place,” Manning said. “I’ve been hooked ever since.”

Manning now tans almost every day in a tanning bed to keep her skin the color she wants.

“I can’t imagine myself pale,” said sophomore Moe Manning, who said she has naturally has fair skin thanks to her Irish roots. “I don’t think people would recognize me.”

The medical community has a recently changed the way they see people who tan, and pop-culture has added the word “tanorexic” to its vocabulary to describe someone who can’t stop tanning.

Read more at http://graphic.pepperdine.edu/living/2006/2006-02-16-tanorexia.htm.