April 26, 2021 Tanning enthusiast Adele Hughes was diagnosed with Stage 3 skin cancer in 2019. “I don’t want to expose my skin now as I’m covered in scars,” she says. “People don’t understand how dangerous the sun is.” Adele Hughes From her teens to her early 30s, Adele Hughes was a tanning enthusiast. Growing up in Liverpool in northwest England, she would use tanning beds and sunbathe while on beach holidays in Europe, using SPF 8 sunscreen in the hope of getting a tan. “I have very fair skin – I do not tan,” says the 41-year-old primary-school teacher, who is now based in Hong Kong “Looking back, I was so naive.”