For Skin Cancer Awareness Month, ELLE.com chatted with Brooke Shields about how her diagnosis of pre-cancerous cells led her to change her relationship with sunscreen. Below, the actress opens up her childhood sun philosophy and how she's rewriting the narrative with her kids, in her own words.
] Initially, my doctor had to remove cells from my lips twice to determine the diagnosis. At first, we tried going a conservative route and scrapped cells from a part of my lip. But as a little came back, I had to do a slightly more invasive procedure that would go into deeper layers of my skin. The test came back as a pre-cancer diagnosis. A diagnosis left untreated can turn into a type of skin cancer.
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