GETTING ready for a night out, Sarah Boyton carefully applies her makeup, hoping to disguise her wrinkles, and then winds a scarf around her neck. It’s the only way she hopes she can look younger than her 57 years but admits that despite these efforts she worries she looks far older. Sarah has been addicted to tanning since she was 17 when she first hired a sun bed to have at home.
And she knows only too well her addiction has come at a price, having been diagnosed with skin cancer in October 2016 Speaking exclusively to Fabulous, Sarah, who lives in north London, admits, “I love having a tan, I don’t feel right without one and fake tan isn’t the same. “I go on up to six holidays a year, all to hot places so I can return bronzed. “I’ve just come back from Morocco and I plan to travel more than ever in the future.
“Of course, I do worry about my ageing skin and cancer. “When I was diagnosed with skin cancer it was a huge shock – I’d gone to my GP about something completely unrelated and he noticed it and told me he thought it was cancer, and a biopsy confirmed it.” Sarah’s first operation didn’t completely remove the cancer so her surgeons booked her in for a second one, astonishingly she delayed it to go on holiday to Ibiza and came back with a tan.
She confesses, “I lied to my doctor and said it was fake tan, but I doubt he was fooled for a moment. “They warned me that I have a propensity to skin cancer, but it doesn’t stop me from sun bathi.