Ouch! Woman’s Graphic Skin Cancer Selfie Highlights Dangers of Repeated Tanning [PICS]

Tawny Willoughby, with her son, before her skin cancer treatment. (Photo: Facebook) 

Kentucky-born Tawny Willoughby used a tanning bed four to five times a week in high school. At age 27, she’s now had basal cell carcinoma five times, and squamous cell carcinoma once.

Now a wife and mother of a two-year-old son, Willoughby posted a graphic photo of her skin cancer treatment to Facebook as an awareness tool. “If anyone needs a little motivation to not lay in the tanning bed and sun here ya go!” she writes. “This is what skin cancer treatment can look like.”

Brace yourself: 

Tawny Willoughby after using a skin cancer treatment cream called Aldara to clear away her damage. (Photo: Facebook)