May
13
Even on a cloudy day, skin cancer prevention advocate Marcia Cross
protects her fair skin under a large white hat as she exits a nail salon in Santa Monica yesterday.
The 'Desperate Housewives' star is the spokeswoman for the awareness group Skin Cancer Takes Friends and spends the time she's not working - or spending time with the twins - warning of the dangers of tanning and promoting the use of sunscreen and regular visits with a dermatologist.
The actress, who has a family history of the disease says, 'I’m not a sun worshiper and I want to convince people not to be, which is a hard sell.'
Her message was even a hard sell to her husband, Tom Mahoney, who needed a skin cancer scare of his own to take care of his skin.
The 'Desperate Housewives' star is the spokeswoman for the awareness group Skin Cancer Takes Friends and spends the time she's not working - or spending time with the twins - warning of the dangers of tanning and promoting the use of sunscreen and regular visits with a dermatologist.
The actress, who has a family history of the disease says, 'I’m not a sun worshiper and I want to convince people not to be, which is a hard sell.'
Her message was even a hard sell to her husband, Tom Mahoney, who needed a skin cancer scare of his own to take care of his skin.
Says Marcia, 'I’ve really had to nag to get him to take care of his skin and, sure enough, he was at the dermatologist for something else and the doctor wound up burning a little precancerous thing off his cheek and now he puts that sunscreen on.'
Marcia's efforts should be applauded, but sadly, she's also kind of advocating that awful, orange fake bake. It's too bad there's really no happy medium here.
Leave a comment