When Heidi Tarr was a teenager, she used a tanning bed several times a week with her friends because they all wanted to glow like a celebrity.
"It was just the thing to do - everyone wanted that nice, dark, tan skin," the 49-year-old market researcher told AFP via video call from Chicago.
Then one day in her 30s, Tarr noticed a strange mole on her back.
It was a melanoma - the deadliest form of skin cancer. She was lucky to have caught it early on, but has needed over a dozen biopsies to remove more moles.
Now her 15-year-old daughter Olivia is seeing trending videos on TikTok of people showing off their
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