A tanning addict who continued to use sunbeds even while she was battling skin cancer says she has now undergone 12 surgeries, and was forced to use a chemotherapy cream that made her feel like her body was being 'burnt by a blow torch' - leaving her with gruesome blotches all over her face and more than 700 stitches.Julie Elrod, 56, from Tampa, , said that she'd always felt 'sexier' and 'more beautiful' with a tan - so she started using sunbeds twice a week from the age of 24, and she soon became 'addicted' to tanning.But around 12 years later, at age 36, the retired karate school owner noticed that a scabby spot had formed on her forehead and it wouldn't go away, and she was eventually diagnosed with two different types of skin cancer
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