“Humans are weird, I am paying money to lay in a bright tube that will give me cancer,” Linnea Bendiksen wrote in a TikTok video she posted last spring that she recorded while inside of a tanning bed. That viral video has received more than 300,000 likes and is one of the many examples of tanning beds making a comeback on TikTok, including a recent video in which Kim Kardashian shows off her workspace and says, “Of course I have a tanning bed in my office.”
Dr. Muneeb Shah, a board-certified dermatologist also known as the “DermDoctor” to his more than 18 million TikTok followers, finds videos like Bendiksen’s and Kardashian’s frustrating because they downplay the serious risks of tanning beds, which he experienced personally. Shah frequently used tanning beds as a teenager, and, at 31, he self-diagnosed himself with skin cancer when he noticed a pink, itchy bump on his chest that bled when he scratched it. “I learned a lot about what patients go through and what it actually feels like when you have [skin cancer] removed, and that’s also why I’m on social media very often trying to tell people the risks of tanning,” Shah tells Yahoo Life.
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